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United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)

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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

– Alexander Graham Bell

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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

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Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.

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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 - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

– Alexander Graham Bell

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What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.

– Alexander Graham Bell

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When 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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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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