Frases de Alexander Graham Bell

„Antes que toda otra cosa la preparación es la clave para el éxito.“

—  Alexander Graham Bell

Fuente: Darlian R. Fernández F; de Gonzále Portillo, Nilia.. Tú decides hasta dónde quieres llegar: Creando un futuro mejor..!! Editor Darlian Fernandez; Edición: 1ª. 2015.

„El consumo mundial de petróleo es tan grande que las provisiones solo pueden durar unas cuantas generaciones más. La solución es el alcohol, un combustible limpio y perfecto.“

—  Alexander Graham Bell

Fuente: Darlian R. Fernández F; de Gonzále Portillo, Nilia.. Tú decides hasta dónde quieres llegar: Creando un futuro mejor..!! Editor Darlian Fernandez; Edición: 1ª. 2015.

„Nunca andes por el camino trazado pues él te conducirá únicamente a donde otros ya fueron.“

—  Alexander Graham Bell

Fuente: Palomo Triguero, Eduardo. Cita-logía. Editorial Punto Rojo Libros,S.L. ISBN 978-84-16068-10-4. p.57

„Ni el Ejército ni la Armada tienen ninguna protección, o muy poca protección, contra las incursiones aéreas.“

—  Alexander Graham Bell

„No sigas por siempre en la vía pública, yendo solo a donde otros han ido.“

—  Alexander Graham Bell

„No te quedes para siempre en la vía pública. Deje la ruta establecida de vez en cuando y sumérjase en el bosque.“

—  Alexander Graham Bell

„Había decidido encontrar lo que estaba buscando, incluso si requería el resto de mi vida.“

—  Alexander Graham Bell

„Los hombres más exitosos al final son aquellos cuyo éxito es el resultado de una acumulación constante.“

—  Alexander Graham Bell

„La noche es un momento más tranquilo para trabajar. Ayuda al pensamiento.“

—  Alexander Graham Bell

„No puedes forzar ideas. Las ideas exitosas son el resultado de un crecimiento lento.“

—  Alexander Graham Bell

„Si un hombre no está atado, seguramente tendrá éxito.“

—  Alexander Graham Bell

„Un hombre, como regla general, debe muy poco a lo que nace: un hombre es lo que hace de sí mismo.“

—  Alexander Graham Bell

„You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth.“

—  Alexander Graham Bell

Contexto: 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.

„Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.“

—  Alexander Graham Bell

Contexto: 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.

„I had made up my mind to find that for which I was searching even if it required the remainder of my life.“

—  Alexander Graham Bell

As quoted in Making a Habit of Success: How to Make a Habit of Succeeding, How to Win With High Self-Esteem (1999) by MacK R. Douglas, p. 45. Unsourced variant: What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists... and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.
Contexto: I had made up my mind to find that for which I was searching even if it required the remainder of my life. After innumerable failures I finally uncovered the principle for which I was searching, and I was astounded at its simplicity. I was still more astounded to discover the principle I had revealed not only beneficial in the construction of a mechanical hearing aid but it served as well as means of sending the sound of the voice over a wire. Another discovery which came out of my investigation was the fact that when a man gives his order to produce a definite result and stands by that order it seems to have the effect of giving him what might be termed a second sight which enables him 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 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.

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

—  Alexander Graham Bell

Contexto: The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. That intellectuality is more vigorous that has attained its strength gradually. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider — and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation — persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

„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. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization.“

—  Alexander Graham Bell

As appears on plaque in the entrance to the Alexander Graham Bell Museum http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/ns/grahambell/index_e.asp in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada.

„Don't keep forever on the public road. Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.“

—  Alexander Graham Bell

As quoted in "The Chemistry of Life" by Ralph Whiteside Kerr in Rosicrucian Digest (1947), p. 131.
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Contexto: Don't keep forever on the public road. Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before, and something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the result of thought.

„There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.“

—  Alexander Graham Bell

Statement to a reporter a few months before he died, as quoted at Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bellhtml/bellinvent.html