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Alexander Graham Bell Quotes
«Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.»
Author: Alexander Graham Bell
(Educator, Inventor)
| About:
Focus,
Work
| Keywords:
at hand, concentrate, rays, work at
«Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.»
Author: Alexander Graham Bell
(Educator, Inventor)
| About:
Opportunity,
Overcoming
| Keywords:
closing, door, late, so long, stare, stares, Too late
«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.»
Author: Alexander Graham Bell
(Educator, Inventor)
| About:
Opportunity,
Regret
| Keywords:
closed-door, closed, closes, opened, opens, regretfully
«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.»
Author: Alexander Graham Bell
(Educator, Inventor)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
available, become available, state of mind
«A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself»
«Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.»
Author: Alexander Graham Bell
(Educator, Inventor)
| Keywords:
be given, blazed, blazes, cooperation, credit, developments, discoveries, due, due to, improvements, invariably, involve, subsequent, trail, trailing, trails
«The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -»
Author: Alexander Graham Bell
(Educator, Inventor)
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
accretion, accretions, Advances, carefully, grasp, most successful, progressively, steady, theme, wider
