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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.

Alexander Graham Bell

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Preparation Success
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.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Force Ideas Perfection Successful
The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Men Person Talk Technology
There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.
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Beginning End Technology Travel
The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Control Nation World
It is the man who carefully advances step by step, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Men Success
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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Burn Focus Hands Inspirational Sun
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.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Mental Person Remember
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.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Leaving Time
The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
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Achievement Goal Inspirational Start
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Opportunity Positive See
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
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
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Ability Action Differences Failure Success
First words on the first telephone – “Mr. Watson – come here – I want to see you.”
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

See Technology Yourself
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 BELL

Determination Existence Inspirational Motivational Perseverance
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.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Inspirational Life Love Regret