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You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

Alexander Graham Bell

One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Oneself Technology
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Inspirational Life Love Regret
Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Leaving Time
Wherever you may find the inventor, you may give him wealth or you may take from him all that he has; and he will go on inventing. He can no more help inventing that he can help thinking or breathing.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Breathe Invention Thinking
God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Eyes Nature Path Travel
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Born Inspirational Life Motivational
The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Greatness Skill Technology
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Animal Desire Men
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Ability Action Differences Failure Success
Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Night Quiet
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Opportunity Positive See
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Burn Focus Hands Inspirational Sun
The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Funny People Travel
The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Men Person Talk Technology
Observe, Remember, Compare.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

One Liner Remember
First words on the first telephone – “Mr. Watson – come here – I want to see you.”
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

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