Wisdom of Thomas Edison

A couple of days ago we watched the 1940 movie "Edison, the Man."  There were some quotes in the movie that I really liked as well as some other quotes by Edison that I feel have meaning for us as Esperanza. 

Thomas A. Edison: [after the latest attempt to find a filament that will work in the electric light] Well, we failed again. That's the net result of nine thousand experiments.
Michael Simon: Too bad, Tom. We know the work you have done. We are as sorry as you are that you didn't get results.
Thomas A. Edison: Results? Man, I got a lot of results. I know nine thousand things now that won't work.

Edison:  What man’s mind can conceive, man’s character can control. 

Thomas A. Edison: Uncle Ben, I've got to do something, and I'm open for suggestions.
Ben Els: You foolin', Tom?
Thomas A. Edison: I wish I was?
Ben Els: Nobody ever asked me for advice before.
Thomas A. Edison: Why, then, you ought to have a lot of it stored up.

Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.

• The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison (1948), p. 110