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 will be certain to find something you have never seen before. Of course it will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. One discovery will lead to another, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind, and really big discoveries are the result of thought.

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The inventor is a man who looks around 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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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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Observe, Remember, Compare.

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When one door closes, another one opens.

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One day every major city in America will have a telephone.

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There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.

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The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.

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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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It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

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