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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
When one door closes, another door opens; but we so often look so long and regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus” 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 most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.” A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself. Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You'll be certain to find something you have never seen before.”
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