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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.


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THOMAS A. EDISON I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
THOMAS A. EDISON I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident and none of my inventions came about totally b...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON Nothing is by accident. We did not end up in Greenville by accident.
TONY ORLANDO I came to photography by accident.
EVE ARNOLD No one came to Christ by accident
SUNDAY ADELAJA Never insult anyone by accident.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor pr...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN God does not do anything by accident or randomly
SUNDAY ADELAJA A thief never makes a noise by accident.
MEGAN WHALEN TURNER For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.
SIDNEY LUMET Life is composed of different inventions. I have continued to work at different things and rebuilt m...
MIKHAIL KALASHNIKOV This is novel. I've never heard of anything like it, just for pets. I just stumbled upon it by accid...
DEBBY REILLY There is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident.
CHARLES LAMB The accident remains under investigation by our accident-reconstruction team,
ROBERT NOBLE Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
MAHATMA GANDHI Leaders live by choice, not by accident.
MARK GORMAN How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will ha...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I started playing guitar kind of by accident.
RYAN CABRERA If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN They are intimidating. They're not No. 1 by accident.
GREG BERGER “Excellence is never by accident. It is born when life revolves in hard work imbued with commitmen...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER I got the job almost by accident,
FERNANDO MEIRELLES Men may irritate women entirely by accident, but I believe they infuriate one another wholly by desi...
S.E. GROVE By many a happy accident.
THOMAS MIDDLETON Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND For things said false and never meant, Do oft prove true by accident
SAMUEL BUTLER The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
FRIEDRICH DüRRENMATT We do not suffer by accident.
JANE AUSTEN The game of squash was discovered by accident.
KEN KAWAMOTO Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
BORIS JOHNSON I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.
MAURICE RAVEL Don't learn safety rules simply by accident
SOURCE UNKNOWN Many people say they got into their career by accident. The other side of that is that your career i...
DAN KING I am following minute by minute the unfolding of this tragic accident,
ALEJANDRO TOLEDO Too bad. Family members hit you by accident. Psychopathic whores tend to come back for more.
RICHELLE MEAD A weak man is just an accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
MAHATMA GANDHI Did they come by this way?
DIRK KEMPTHORNE Highway patrol people were here about ten minutes after the accident and they did not find any exten...
BOB FRANCIS By pure accident, they have created a huge hot spot on Main Street.
FRANK CARUSO One of a parent’s most important tasks is teaching their children how to communicate effectively a...
BY FAMOUS Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.
BY ALEFLETCHER One does not become a guru by accident.
JAMES FENTON No one is sent by accident to anyone.
JUVY ANN Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.
PHILIP CROSBY More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.
JEFF GREENFIELD Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.
DAVID H. MURDOCK unlike the rest of the free world, I didn’t get here by accident.
JODI PICOULT I don?t know if it was by accident [the discharge].
MIKE VAUGHN I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
JOSH BILLINGS There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.
HENRY WARD BEECHER If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard ...
THOMAS HARDY When you do genealogy, you do history by accident.
DEANNA FISHER The greatest pleasure I know is to do something by stealth and have it found out by accident
CHARLES LAMB So much of business is done by the seat of the pants. So much is done by accident.
JEFFREY HEWITT If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Surround yourself with people who love life and learn.
LORII MYERS I hope I remember everything," said Toni.
"You won't," said Trapp. "That's how you learn. But a...
LOUIS SACHAR Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking ou...
ROBERT BADEN-POWELL Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking ou...
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL I never wanted to be on any billionaires list. I never define myself by net worth. I always try to d...
HOWARD SCHULTZ Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.
MIKE FIGGIS The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
CHARLES LAMB I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an America...
FAREED ZAKARIA I never had intention of coming to New York or L.A. and actually doing more than scraping by - you k...
J. K. SIMMONS I think it's fair to say there has never been an accident that you can clearly say was caused by ele...
GRANGER MORGAN I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
UPTON SINCLAIR I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.
GORDON GETTY Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.
DAVID CASSIDY I was about 7 and my family was eating at a restaurant when we saw my first Elvis impersonator by to...
DRAKE MILLIGAN The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accide...
CHARLES LAMB The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by acciden...
CHARLES LAMB The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident
CHARLES LAMB No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embr...
JAMES BRYCE A guy has to have the want-to. You don't just make plays by a mistake, by accident.
ANQUAN BOLDIN Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.
CHUCK KNOX Spike Lee is obviously more stupid than anyone can be by accident.
DICK ARMEY There are more ways to choose a profession. One can choose it by intention, by strong parental influ...
ERALDO BANOVAC No,” I said slowly, trying to put the brakes on my escalating heart beat, “I did not give you my...
RAINE MILLER Fresh wounds," said Angua. "But one of them did shoot one of the other in the leg by accident."
TERRY PRATCHETT I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision...
WERNER HERZOG None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY When people know they are created with a purpose, and not here by accident, it is life-changing.
SHANE HARPER When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and...
BRUCE SUTTER You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accide...
EDIE CAMPBELL I have continued to work at different things, and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sa...
MIKHAIL KALASHNIKOV We came a long ways this year, but we can still go a lot farther. It's a learning experience. ... Wh...
BRENT DUGAN The very nature of compensation requires that it should cover losses incurred by an accident.
YASSER FATHI One time by accident, you know...but 3 times, in the main organs. My son loved you Boo Boo and I jus...
CAROLINE CAMPBELL When faith did come, it came, I think, by way of my little paralyzed daughter. Her lifeless hands le...
JOYCE KILMER My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor ...
RAM DASS Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn’t happen by accident.
BRIAN E. BOYD SR. I became a fashion designer by accident. I loved to make portrait drawings when I was a teenager, an...
ANN DEMEULEMEESTER I thought I was doing all of the work. I just didn't know he was there. I couldn't do anything; he c...
JUSTIN ALLEN How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and...
J. SMITH ("JOHN SMITH OF CAMBRIDGE") What Richard and Mildred Loving did was, by their nature, not by any calculus, they separated themse...
JEFF NICHOLS By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the wo...
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