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Thomas Edison quotes:
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. (ESTj work ethic, EJ)
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease. (Si > Ni.... though in all fairness to his Ni, I don't know how many people alive back then could have predicted that the health care system would end up being run by insurance and pharmaceutical companies)
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. (Intelligence, but I also think what he had in mind here has to do with the ESTj work ethic)
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. (Ne, I guess... maybe Te)
If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. (ESTj work ethic with a strong Positivist Ne influence)
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. (Te)
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! (Not all that sure what to attribute this to... this seems like the opposite something an ESFj would say, so it's not just about a Ne hidden agenda)
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. (Te, intelligence, Delta quadra values in general)
Discontent is the first necessity of progress. (Ne)
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope. (weak Ni, weak Fi, sensing, Te)
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. (weak Ni, EJ)
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. (ESTj work ethic, EJ)
Great ideas originate in the muscles. (ESTj work ethic, EJ)
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. (Ne, Te > Ti, but I don't know the context in which this was said)
I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. (Fi, unvalued Se)
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. (Si > Se, EJ, ESTj work ethic)
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. (Fi > Fe, though obviously any type can have this attitude)
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. (I see EJ in this, as well as dynamicism, and perhaps Ne?)
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun. (Serious, EJ, ESTj work ethic perhaps, Ne perhaps)
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. (ESTj work ethic, EJ, tactics)
I start where the last man left off. (ESTj work ethic, tactics)
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. (intelligence perhaps, Ne)
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work. (Intelligence)
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. (Te, Ne)
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. (Intelligence perhaps, Ne perhaps, ESTj work ethic perhaps)
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. (Ne)
Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged. (Intelligence, wisdom, EJ, Ne)
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. (Fi, unvalued Se)
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. (I thought this one was already in here? In any case, ESTj work ethic, unvalued Se and Fe)
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. (ESTj work ethics, EJ)
Religion is all bunk. (lmao did Edison really say that? I'd say intelligence, Te/Fi > Ti/Fe, Ne... and yes, I realize that there are plenty of athiest and agnostic Ti/Fe types in the world)
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress. (EJ mostly, Ne)
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. (omg I love Thomas Edison! This sentence speaks against the main problem I've had with Delta, especially Delta STs, in general, which leads me to believe that intelligence plays a large role in this mindset. I can see EJ restlessness in this statement though.)
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil. (Si maybe? Perhaps not type related? I dunno)
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work. (this was in here before with slightly different working... oh well, ESTj work ethic, EJ)
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. (I think this statement is a very large part of the very essence of ESTj)
The value of an idea lies in the using of it. (Te, perhaps sensing to some extent)
There is no substitute for hard work. (ESTj ESTj ESTj)
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. (ahahahahahahahahaha yeah, the threat of a nuclear holocaust didn't end war... I really don't think anything can. Humans will never be that wise or enlightened. It is in human nature to hate and to harm other humans. Anyways, this shows shitty Ni and unvalued Se)
There's a way to do it better - find it. (Te, Ne to a lessor extent)
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. (dynamicism perhaps, Te perhaps)
To have a great idea, have a lot of them. (Ne maybe)
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. (Ne)
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless. (Si and Te, I guess)
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. (Ne, maybe Te)
What you are will show in what you do.
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. (EJ perhaps)
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
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, LIE, ENTj logical subtype, 8w9 sx/sp
., which is obviously shared between the ISFj and the INFj.
intimidation.
