Another discovery which came out of my investigation was the fact that when one gives his or her order to produce a definite result and stands by that order, it seems to have the effect of giving one what might be termed a second sight which enables him or her to see right through ordinary problems. What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when one is in that state of mind in which he or she knows exactly what one wants and is fully determined not to quit until he or she finds it. - Alexander Graham Bell
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. - Alexander Graham Bell
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus - 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. - Alexander Graham Bell
God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut - Alexander Graham Bell
I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers. - Alexander Graham Bell
In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length. - Alexander Graham Bell
It is not, of course, complete yet - but some sentences were understood this afternoon... I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem - and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas - and friends converse with each other without leaving home. - Alexander Graham Bell
It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree. - Alexander Graham Bell
Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before. - Alexander Graham Bell
Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don't intend to give in either till all is completed. - Alexander Graham Bell
Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem. - Alexander Graham Bell
The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking. - Alexander Graham Bell
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. - Alexander Graham Bell
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. - Alexander Graham Bell
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. - Alexander Graham Bell
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action. - Alexander Graham Bell
Watson, ... if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air varies in density when a sound is passing through it, I can telegraph any sound, even the sound of speech. - Alexander Graham Bell
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. - Alexander Graham Bell
A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke. - Vincent van Gogh
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