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.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELLThere cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.
More Alexander Graham Bell Quotes
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America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
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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.
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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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The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
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Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.
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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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Observe, Remember, Compare.
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One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
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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 telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.
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Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.
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When one door closes, another one opens.
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I have always considered myself as an Agnostic.
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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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