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 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.
It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
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.
Observe, Remember, Compare.
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
