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Quotes from Bell Telephone Talk — Alexander Graham Bell

1847–1922 Scotland

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8 quotes

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself.

Bell Telephone Talk (1901)

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Bell Telephone Talk (1901)

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Bell Telephone Talk (1901)

Perseverance must have some practical end, or it does not avail the man possessing it. A person without a practical end in view becomes a crank or an idiot. Such persons fill our asylums.

Bell Telephone Talk (1901)

If a man is not bound down, he is sure to succeed.

Bell Telephone Talk (1901)

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.

Bell Telephone Talk (1901)

I begin my work at about nine or ten o'clock in the evening and continue until four or five in the morning. Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.

Bell Telephone Talk (1901)

Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.

Bell Telephone Talk (1901)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alexander Graham Bell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.