Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Monday, April 21, 2014 – Alexander Graham Bell
Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Monday, April 21, 2014 – Alexander Graham Bell
“A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.”
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“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”
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“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
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“The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.”
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“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.”
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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.”
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“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.”
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“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.”
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“Mr. Watson — Come here — I want to see you.”
First intelligible words spoken over the telephone (10 March 1876), as recorded in Bell’s Journal entry (10 March 1876). These are often misquoted as “Mr. Watson, come here, I want you.” Watson later recounted that Bell had spilled battery acid and had called for him over the phone with these words, but this may have been in a separate incident.
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“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.”
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“The inventor…looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization.”
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“I begin my work at about nine or ten o’clock in the evening and continue until four or five in the morning. Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.”
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“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.”
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“I am a believer in unconscious cerebration. The brain is working all the time, though we do not know it. At night it follows up what we think in the daytime. When I have worked a long time on one thing, I make it a point to bring all the facts regarding it together before I retire; I have often been surprised at the results… We are thinking all the time; it is impossible not to think.”
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“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.”
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“Don’t keep forever on the public road. Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before, and something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the result of thought.”
Wikipedia Page: Alexander Graham Bell
