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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

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

See Technology Yourself
The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Achievement Goal Inspirational Start
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
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

End Men Result Success
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
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
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Born Inspirational Life Motivational
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
With every door that closes a new one opens.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Inspirational One Liner
One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Oneself Technology
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
What this power is, I cannot say All I know is that it exists.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Determination Existence Positive Spiritual
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
There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Beginning End Technology Travel
Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Nature Path
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