A Quote by Thomas A. Edison

Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.

Thomas A. Edison

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Thomas A. Edison
American - Inventor
February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931

Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.

Josh Billings

Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.

Arthur Christiansen

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.

Thomas A. Edison

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Thomas A. Edison

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

Knute Rockne

Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.

Albert Einstein

Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

Knute Rockne

My show is not just a cop hosting a talk show - the two are completely different. My show is about helping people stand up to the bad guy.

Steve Wilkos

I remember when I had my show [The Chris Rock Show on HBO], I used to run my show. It was so hard to get people to bring sketches to me. No one had ever worked for a black person before. Even the black people hadn't worked for a black person. It literally took a month or two for everybody to know: I'm really running the show.

Scott Raab

Show me thy feet, show me thy legs, thy thighs Show me those fleshy principalities; Show me that hill where smiling love doth sit, Having a living fountain under it; Show me thy waist, then let me there withal, By the ascension of thy lawn, see all.

Robert Herrick

I'm completely unlike a lot of other performers in the past who have been forgiven or come to terms with the real world because they tell everyone their performance is 'just a show.' And so, people say, 'Oh, it's OK then. We don't care. He's not really a bad person.' It's not just a show for me. It's my life.

Marilyn Manson

I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.

Claire Scovell LaZebnik

Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.

Frank Herbert

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.