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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.

Alexander Graham Bell

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
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Ability Action Differences Failure Success
The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
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Achievement Goal Inspirational Start
America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
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Greatness Invention Man
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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Determination Existence Inspirational Motivational Perseverance
God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut.
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Eyes Nature Path Travel
I have always considered myself as an Agnostic.
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Character Myself
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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Force Ideas Perfection Successful
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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Inspirational Life Love Regret
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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Myself Simplicity Travel
It is the man who carefully advances step by step, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
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Men Success
With every door that closes a new one opens.
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Inspirational One Liner
The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
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Control Nation World
When one door closes, another one opens.
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Inspirational One Liner Oneself
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
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Preparation Success
Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.
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Night Quiet
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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Breathe Invention Thinking
Observe, Remember, Compare.
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One Liner Remember
Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.
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Nature Path
There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.
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Beginning End Technology Travel
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
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End Men Result Success
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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Believe Leaving Life Yourself
One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
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Oneself Technology
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
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Discovery Greatness Improvement Mindset
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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Greatness Skill Technology
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.
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Animal Desire Men
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.
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Leaving Time
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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Mental Person Remember