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 BELLWherever 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.
More Alexander Graham Bell Quotes
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With every door that closes a new one opens.
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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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There 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.
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God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut.
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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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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
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The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
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America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
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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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The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.
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Observe, Remember, Compare.
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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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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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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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I have always considered myself as an Agnostic.
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