Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELLOne day every major city in America will have a telephone.
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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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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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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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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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Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.
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First words on the first telephone – “Mr. Watson – come here – I want to see you.”
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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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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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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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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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