Alexander Graham Bell

The telephone is a great invention, but it is not a miracle.

I have always been a builder, and I have always enjoyed creating things.

The telephone is a great tool for progress, but it is not a guarantee of a better future.

The telephone is a great invention, but it is not the only path to innovation.

I have always been an optimist, and I have always believed that good things are possible.

The telephone is a great way to connect with the world, but it is not a substitute for experiencing it.

The telephone is a great invention, but it is not the ultimate solution.

I have always been a visionary, and I have always looked to the future with hope.

The telephone is a great tool for communication, but it is not a replacement for understanding.

The telephone is a great invention, but it is not the final word.

Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.

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

The most successful men in the end are those whose life is a constant improvisation, and they improvise by working steadily ahead and making infinite calculations of possibilities, times, and forces.

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before, and it will be a pleasant surprise.

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 a reformer.

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 loves his work sufficiently to do it without any other reward than the doing of it.

The telephone will undoubtedly be the means of destroying personal privacy.

We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.