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 final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations, until we can propound the fact of such sensitiveness being a general property of all matter. - 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 inventor...looks 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. - Alexander Graham Bell
The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world. - Alexander Graham Bell
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action. - Alexander Graham Bell
There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end. - Alexander Graham Bell
There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing how's and whys about things. - 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
We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked. - Alexander Graham Bell
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. - Alexander Graham Bell
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. - Alexander Graham Bell
Wherever you may find the inventor, you may give him wealth or you may take from him all that he has; and he will go on inventing. He can no more help inventing that he can help thinking or breathing. - 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
...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? - Vincent van Gogh
An artist needn't be a clergyman or a church warden, but he must have a warm heart for his fellow men. - Vincent van Gogh
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. - Vincent van Gogh
Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all. - Vincent van Gogh
But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing. - Vincent van Gogh
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. - Vincent van Gogh
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