Quotes for the week: Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)

Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish inventor, scientist, and professor who is popular for his invention of the first telephone that transmitted human voice.

Alexander Bell had a deaf mother and his wife was also deaf. This led him to find a possible invention that could allow his wife and mother hear sounds like other human beings.

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In the process of solving a problem in his family, he solved a problem for the world by actually inventing a telephone and not a hearing aid.

Below are some of his inspirational quotes:

“Mr. Watson – Come here – I want to see you” (first words transmitted through the telephone)

“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments; I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.”

“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.”

Have an ‘inventful’ week everyone.

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