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More Quotes by Alexander Graham Bell
First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before. Of course it will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. One discovery will lead to another, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind, and really big discoveries are the result of thought.
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.
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
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.
The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
