Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Interview with Bell published in How They Succeeded (1901) by Orison Swett Marden, Ch. 2.
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More from Alexander Graham Bell
Perseverance must have some practical end, or it does not avail the man possessing it. A person without a practical end in view becomes a crank or an idiot. Such persons fill our asylums.
viewWhen one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
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Mr. Watson, come here, I want you.
First words spoken into the telephone (1876)
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself.
Interview with Bell published in How They Succeeded (1901) by Orison Swett Marden, Ch. 2.
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
As quoted in Sophia's Fire (2005) by Sango Mbella , p. 133
