{"author":"Alexander Graham Bell","author_id":"Alexander+Graham+Bell","total_quotes":18,"quotes":[{"text":"Don't keep forever on the public road,going only where others have gone, and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. 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. Of course it will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. Follow it up, explore all around it; one discovery will lead to another, and before you know it you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the results of thought.","author":"Alexander Graham Bell","tags":["discoveries","search","thought"],"id":39662,"author_id":"Alexander+Graham+Bell"},{"text":"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.","author":"Alexander Graham Bell","tags":["focus","sun","thoughts "],"id":51933,"author_id":"Alexander+Graham+Bell"},{"text":"It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say 'oral method' to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say 'sign language' to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.","author":"Alexander Graham Bell","tags":["language","red","face "],"id":71611,"author_id":"Alexander+Graham+Bell"},{"text":"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.","author":"Alexander Graham Bell","tags":["preparation","key "],"id":106921,"author_id":"Alexander+Graham+Bell"},{"text":"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.","author":"Alexander Graham Bell","tags":["men","end","successful "],"id":136775,"author_id":"Alexander+Graham+Bell"},{"text":"Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.","author":"Alexander Graham Bell","tags":["successful","you","nation "],"id":221388,"author_id":"Alexander+Graham+Bell"},{"text":"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.","author":"Alexander Graham Bell","tags":["animal-life","growth","position","result","slow-growth","time"],"id":232883,"author_id":"Alexander+Graham+Bell"},{"text":"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.","author":"Alexander Graham Bell","tags":["motivation","productivity"],"id":236723,"author_id":"Alexander+Graham+Bell"},{"text":"Mr. Watson — Come here — I want to se.","author":"Alexander Graham Bell","tags":["invention","science","telephone"],"id":278589,"author_id":"Alexander+Graham+Bell"},{"text":"My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.","author":"Alexander Graham Bell","tags":["hands","my own","hold "],"id":290757,"author_id":"Alexander+Graham+Bell"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}