Alexander Graham Bell Quotes

Follow no path. Make your own.

Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!

Beaten paths are for beaten men.

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction — you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart.

If you wanted to chart new territories and head off over the horizon, you had to make sure you weren't overly influenced by what others were doing ... so it didn't matter what other bands were doing ... we did what we were doing.

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

I like to experiment, and my life has been eventful.

Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

I think the best way is to forget about racing people and just find territory that's fresh.

There's a certain road in life most people walk on, because it's familiar, and they can jostle to get in front place. I prefer to take a different road that's less crowded, with many forks, where you get a wider view of life. I call it 'the road less travelled'. That's where I want to be.

I have always lived my life outside of the box. I find it to be way more fun there.

Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.

I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.

Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else - above all, a travel bureau - arrange everything before-hand?

Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing.

Never follow the crowd. Go where it's empty.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.

I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.

Let your walks now be a little more adventurous.

Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit.

Historically, Alaska is a place that has attracted those fed up with conventionality.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.