Your Daily Insight as told by Thomas Edison

I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.



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I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The non-existent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
The key question isn't 'What fosters creativity?' But it is why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might be not why do people create, but why do people not create?
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.
You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration, that's just hot air.