"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."
— Alexander Graham Bell
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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.
About this quote
This saying appears in many quote collections under Bell's name, but no primary source from his correspondence, speeches, or writings has been identified. The metaphor of concentrating sunlight into a focused beam was a common rhetorical device in the late 19th century. Alexander Graham Bell was a prolific letter-writer and lecturer, but this particular phrasing remains unverified in those records.
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