Invent Yourself Quotes

#1. Having a safe space to imagine and dream and (re)invent yourself is the first step to being happy and successful, whatever road you choose to pursue.

Ashley Bryan

#2. Always re-invent yourself. Always try new things; new food, new hobbies, meet new people. That will keep your life from becoming stagnant and boring. And you will have a lot more fun!

Lisa Bedrick

#3. Be your own work of art. Don't find yourself; invent yourself. 'Change Your Mind

Rod Judkins

#4. Life is an experiment to invent yourself again and again.

Debasish Mridha

#5. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Warren G. Bennis

#6. To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.

Michael Caine

#7. People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.

John Le Carre

#8. You invent yourself ... You look at other women-or men; you try on their lives for size. You take what you can use, and you look inside yourself for what you can't find elsewhere. And always ... always ... you wonder if you're doing it right.

Diana Gabaldon

#9. Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself.

Charles Bukowski

#10. You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself.

Juliette Binoche

#11. I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for.

Lance Armstrong

#12. But, really, such an uprooting is instinctual. Time to rebel. Internal gears began to grind, propelling you forward - then you invent the reasons. My

Frances Mayes

#13. Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.

Walter Jon Williams

#14. If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.

Philip Yancey

#15. If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense.

Lyall Watson

#16. The pessimist has to invent new reasons to exist every day: he is a victim of the "meaning" of life.

Emil M. Cioran

#17. We at The Web Standards Project turned everything on its head. We said browsers should support the same standards instead of competing to invent new tags and scripting languages. We said designers, developers, and content folks should create one site that was accessible to everyone.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#18. I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

Pete Townshend

#19. If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

Angela Thirkell

#20. Reality is not enough for us, that's why we have invented art to create different realities!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#21. I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.

Yael Stone

#22. But a voting-machine that human ingenuity can not pervert, human ingenuity can not invent. That

Ambrose Bierce

#23. I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent some new, urgent activity so I don't fall into the trap of starting a new novel.

Umberto Eco

#24. Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn't understand I'd invent a story and workout my understanding of something through the story.

Lisa Alther

#25. I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

#26. We let people invent us as they please, he thinks. The truth we keep to ourselves.

Ivy Pochoda

#27. What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.

Frida Kahlo

#28. The greatest punishment we could invent for her was to keep her separate from him ...

Emily Bronte

#29. I don't think you can be taught how to make art. You can be coached, but on a fundamental level you have to figure it out for yourself. You have to learn how your own mind works, figure out your own relationship to the art; you essentially have to invent it completely for yourself.

Philipp Meyer

#30. You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.

Amy Chua

#31. To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn't have to be an issue. It shouldn't box you in.

Neil Tennant

#32. Don't be such a party-pooper, missy
when you're well and truly screwed, either you just sit pissing yourself or you invent some reason to hope.

James Alan Gardner

#33. If you want absolutes, you have to invent them yourself.

Marty Rubin

#34. Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.

Satya Nadella

#35. Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, colours, sounds and work that nourish your soul

SARK

#36. And tell your wife whatever you want, but don't make promises you're not going to keep. And don't knock yourself out over it; you didn't invent infidelity.

Marc Fitten

#37. It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions.

Jodelle Ferland

#38. You can't imagine the excuses a woman will invent for a man's not telling her that he loves her - pitiable arguments that she would see through at a glance if any other woman used them!

Edith Wharton

#39. Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.

Seth Godin

#40. Think of yourself as a brand. You need to be remembered. What will they remember you for? What defines you? If you have it in you, do something that defines you. Invent something, develop a unique skill, get noticed for something - it creates a talking point.

Chris Arnold

#41. You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

Pierre Bonnard

#42. I do think that sometimes you can invent more palatable or digestible reasons versions or reasons, when perhaps you don't want to admit the truth to yourself, and sometimes we deceive ourselves - along with others - about our reasons and motives.

Adam Brody

#43. It's always so much fun to create backstory. Even if there are more clues in the script, you still always have to invent a lot for yourself. I think that comes naturally.

Jane Levy

#44. my life's motto: If you're not willing to invent cool-sounding bullshit about yourself, don't expect others to.

Tim Dorsey

#45. In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.

Louise Bernikow

#46. Collective Intelligence (CI) is the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate, and invent.

Pierre Levy

#47. We as in us living on this planet called Earth does not mean we own it, us creating stuff technically does not mean we invent'd this.

N.a.

#48. If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#49. You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.

Robert Anton Wilson

#50. Well,I have a theory that men don't actually cry less than women,they just do it differently. Since we never saw our fathers cry,we are forced to invent our own unique method.

Miranda July

#51. If one were to entrust the organisation of public life to the devil, he could not invent a more clever device.

Simone Weil

#52. There are oceans of things to discover, to explore, to learn, to invent, to create in this world; especially with its modern possibilities offered. So, I don't understand when people complain they're bored and have nothing to do.

Sahara Sanders

#53. I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

Paul Simon

#54. My attraction has never been to computers per se, but to the fact that they offer a highly leveraged way to invent magic.

Blaise Aguera Y Arcas

#55. After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

Sigmund Freud

#56. The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don't create it. You don't define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it - or bow to it.

John Piper

#57. I ought to be able to invent words capable of blowing the odor of corpses in a direction other than straight into mine and the reader's face.

Franz Kafka

#58. I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is more extraordinary than anything they can invent.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#59. I invent a reason for the Hertz attendant to start the rental car.
I am seventy-five years old: this is not the reason I give.

Joan Didion

#60. So much of what I do ... is coming up with new characters and trying to invent voices for them, and to have people fully fleshed out in my head and to know who can say what in the scene and who these characters are ... I love it.

Rob Thomas

#61. The better you are as a parent, the richer the nest you've built, the more difficult it is for your kids to leave. So they have to invent things to dislike about you. And they're brilliant at it.

Dustin Hoffman

#62. Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.

Anne Rice

#63. Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

Steve Jobs

#64. Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future.

Augusto Boal

#65. The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.

Bill Gates

#66. I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#67. Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.

Denis Johnston

#68. I am a storyteller from a personal viewpoint. When I run out of people I invent ghosts. I don't believe in ghosts. Never saw one.

Ruskin Bond

#69. To see something as either black or white is easy. To see the entirety in something that has blending colors takes time. To see something that's not there, takes one who is a visionary.

Wes Adamson

#70. It is a characteristic of human beings that if they haven't got a family of their own, they will invent one.

Angela Carter

#71. Indeed, children thrown together in a community that doesn't have a language of its own will invent one in order to communicate with each other.

Steven Pinker

#72. But it's the temptation of so many suburban-raised children to invent tales of adversity, to create hardscrabble mythologies out of life histories marked by little more than field hockey games and orthodontist appointments.

Meghan Daum

#73. If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.

Elbert Hubbard

#74. I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.

Willem Dafoe

#75. I hope they invent a machine in which you type in the age you want to be, and it lifts and separates everything nonsurgically.

Sandra Bullock

#76. Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

Albert Camus

#77. I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.

Orhan Pamuk

#78. When you invent something, there will always be people to criticise. God's creation is full of critics, but has God given up His creation because of the critics?

Sri Chinmoy

#79. If you are always looking for the negative in yourself, then you will find ways to invent it.

Kenneth Horowitz

#80. If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#81. You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

Nikki Giovanni

#82. Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth.

Joshua Foer