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"I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!"
"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself."
"Another discovery which came out of my investigation was the fact that when one gives his or her order to produce a definite result and stands by that order, it seems to have the effect of giving one what might be termed a second sight which enables him or her to see right through ordinary problems. What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when one is in that state of mind in which he or she knows exactly what one wants and is fully determined not to quit until he or she finds it."
"When one door closes, another one opens."
"What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists."
"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."
"It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree."
"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."
"The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent."
"Observe, Remember, Compare."
"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion."
"Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires."
"Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought."
"Wherever you may find the inventor, you may give him wealth or you may take from him all that he has; and he will go on inventing. He can no more help inventing that he can help thinking or breathing."
"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."
"Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods."
"With every door that closes a new one opens."
"One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA"
"There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end."
"The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world."