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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

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
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.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Believe Leaving Life Yourself
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
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
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.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

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

Preparation Success
First words on the first telephone – “Mr. Watson – come here – I want to see you.”
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

See Technology Yourself
One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Oneself Technology
America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Greatness Invention Man
With every door that closes a new one opens.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Inspirational One Liner
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.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Greatness Skill Technology
God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Eyes Nature Path Travel
There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Beginning End Technology Travel
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
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
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Burn Focus Hands Inspirational Sun