Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

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

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

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.

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

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.

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

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

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.

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don’t see the one that has opened for us.

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.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The suns rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

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.

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 that has opened for us.

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

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 and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with, a man is what he makes himself.

The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.

The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.

The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.

Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army - thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.

The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France.

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Even though the National Guard and Army Reserve see combat today, it rankles me that people assume it was some kind of waltz in the park back then.

A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.

Most of the services staff is for the larger corporations, not so much for small and medium businesses because they cannot afford an extensive services army.

Our strategy is to defend ourselves against an occupying army and against settlers and settlements.

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.

I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.

We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.