There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
Thomas A. Edison

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.