More Quotes by Alexander Graham Bell
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.
The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
When one door closes, another one opens.
First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you.
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.
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.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
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.
It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
