The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELLYou 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.
More Alexander Graham Bell Quotes
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One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
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What this power is, I cannot say All I know is that it exists.
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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
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I have always considered myself as an Agnostic.
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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
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First words on the first telephone – “Mr. Watson – come here – I want to see you.”
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Observe, Remember, Compare.
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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.
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With every door that closes a new one opens.
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The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
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A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.
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Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.
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I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
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There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.
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When one door closes, another one opens.
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The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
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Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.
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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.
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It is the man who carefully advances step by step, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
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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.
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Don’t keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.
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The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
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