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“I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours — and thrived on it.”

— Thomas Edison

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Wikiquote: Thomas Edison
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Context

Diary entry, as quoted in Defending and Parenting Children Who Learn Differently : Lessons from Edison's Mother (2007) by Scott Teel, p. 12

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Edison, Thomas. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Thomas Edison. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison

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