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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The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

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God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut.

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When one door closes, another one opens.

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

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

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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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