“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
This quote is by far one of the best quotes I’ve seen recently. I can really “connect” with it because I’ve never really “failed” on learning something in my opinion because I don’t give up very easily nor do I constantly think that i can’t learn it. I may have “failed” in the eyes of others, but I haven’t “failed” in my eyes. Even if a person keeps on doing things wrong, they’ll eventually get it right no matter how long it took if they were truly dedicated to whatever they were doing. Or they might have found a different way to get whatever they needed done, because everyone is different. Therefore they have different ways of thinking to get things done.
Some problems that might be seen as easy to one person might be seen as hard to another person. At the sight of seeing something hard, most people would just give up then and there, and will “fail” but those who don’t are the ones who will not fail unless they just give up. This quote is basically saying you need to try trial and error to see what you did wrong and learn from your mistake, so that next time you won’t make it again. It’s also implying that you shouldn’t give up unless you plan on being a failure and all you need is dedication and discipline to make yourself not “fail.”
For example, like some school subjects may seem hard but once you learn them, they don’t seem quite as hard. Or like how when you were little and learning your ABCs or your mathematics such as addition and subtraction. You probably thought “how am I ever going to learn all of this and remember it 
.” But look at yourself now; you know all of that and even more! With just simple practicing of any kind (it shouldn’t really matter), you can learn anything and if you’re committed to it, you can even become good at it and do something with it one day in your future. Or for another example, say you’re learning something really hard like calculus or linear algebra or physics or something like that, it all looks hard at first and you may feel like you’re overwhelmed with it all but if you just took the time to divide up your work/what you have to learn, it may be easier than you thought it was.
But anyways, this quote reminded me of something I read on another site where it said that some things in life, you don’t need skill nor practicing to do it. And it used breathing and even walking as an example. They’re not an acquired skill that you need to practice because you were taught that from when you were little. But for other things, you need to practice and if you get it wrong, just keep on trying until you get it right and that basically deals with the quote up there. Overall though, I think this quote is really good and reflected Thomas Edison really well, because he was an inventor/scientist and it certainly relates to other people as well.
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