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Alexander Graham Bell - "Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus." · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Podcasthero.com. Welcome to The Daily Quote, the
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  podcast designed to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host, Andrew McGivern, and let's dive into today's
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  quote from Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor who gave us
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  the telephone and revolutionized human communication.
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  He once said, concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in
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  hand. The sun's rays do not burn until
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  brought to a focus. Interesting.
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  The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
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  Think about that. The sun is the most powerful
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  force in our solar system. Incredibly powerful and
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  unimaginably hot. But spread across the whole sky,
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  it just warms you up. It gives you a 10 and it lights
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  the day. Take that exact same power and
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  bring it to a focus through a magnifying glass and suddenly it
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  burns. It ignites.
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  It creates fire from something that was already there.
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  Nothing changed about the sun. The power was always there.
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  What changed was the focus. Bell is telling us you already
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  have the power, the talent, the ability, the potential.
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  It's already inside you. But without focus, that power
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  just warms the room. It does a little of this and a
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  little of that. It spreads itself thin across
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  everything and ignites nothing. Bring that same power to a
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  focus. Concentrate all your thoughts on
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  one thing, and suddenly you burn.
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  You ignite. You create.
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  Bell didn't invent the telephone by half heartedly working on a
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  dozen different projects. He concentrated and focused.
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  He brought all of his mental power to a single point, and
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  that focus turned his potential into one of the greatest
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  inventions in history. The raw material was always
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  there. The focus is what made it
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  extraordinary. So here's the question.
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  What, are you spreading too thin right now?
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  What would happen if you brought all your mental power to a
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  single focus? Because the sun's rays are
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  already powerful, they just need to be brought to a point.
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  Concentrate and watch yourself ignite.
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  That's it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern, signing off
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  for now, but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod station.