Quotes About Inventing

#1. The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.

Jean Piaget

#2. Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.

Malaika Arora Khan

#3. If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

Sam Farr

#4. Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes and having fun

Mary Lou Cook

#5. The mind is a dynamo in the dark, an engine endlessly running, powering nothing. It thrashes in the night, seeking daylight, inventing its own.

John Jackson Miller

#6. Saying is inventing.

Samuel Beckett

#7. God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.

Richard P. Feynman

#8. I don't have any simple things. I only have things like a gold-studded leather jacket. Then I'm going to Hawaii and I'm asking myself "Do I pack it? It could be cold." I'm inventing scenarios where I could wear it.

Shaun White

#9. If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.

Bo Bennett

#10. And what's life if it isn't invention? Starting with inventing yourself.

John Le Carre

#11. The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is. The mental processes of inventions are still mysterious. They are rational but not logical, that is to say, not deductive.

Dennis Gabor

#12. I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

Nancy Mitford

#13. He was aware he did not love her. He had married her because he liked her haughtiness, her seriousness, her strength, and also because of some vanity on his part, but as she kissed him for the first time he was sure there would be obstacle to their inventing true love.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#14. One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.

Warren Bennis

#15. Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.

Janis Ian

#16. Two individuals, conversing honestly, can be inspired by the feeling that they are engaged in a joint enterprise, aiming at inventing an art which has not been tried before.

Theodore Zeldin

#17. You have to deal with the fashion egos. You know, there is a lot. It shouldn't be treated that seriously because fashion is only making dresses to make women look beautiful. We're not inventing anything new.

Carolina Herrera

#18. cities have marvelous innate abilities for understanding, communicating, contriving and inventing what is required to combat their difficulties," she wrote. They get their order from below; they are learning machines, pattern recognizers - even when the patterns they respond to are unhealthy ones.

Steven Johnson

#19. I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell.

Isaac

#20. He wanted to go home and lock his door and sleep. He was tired of the troubles of real people. He wanted to get back to the people he was inventing, whose troubles he could bear.

James Baldwin

#21. I am told that our chroniclers' practice of inventing speeches for great persons whose lives they write is unscholarly.

Poul Anderson

#22. Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of humna perverseness which, after inventing an absurdity, endeavours to find for it a pedigree of distinguished ancestors ...

Joseph Conrad

#23. The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is comforting and consoling. From the reactions I get I can see I'm not doing something strange.

Peter Zumthor

#24. What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#25. Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

Charles Kettering

#26. It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words - almost as though one were inventing them.

Rupert Hart-Davis

#27. The future does not really lie in discovering new fragrant raw materials ... In order to endure, haute perfumery is therefore condemned to inventing new olfactory promises ... to finding a new form of expression.

Jean-Claude Ellena

#28. Being an entrepreneur means that you are sort of inventing something new. You're giving birth to a company. You're giving birth to a new product, a new service. And that's always exciting.

Anousheh Ansari

#29. The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Raoul Vaneigem

#30. Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.

Isaac

#31. The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

Evelyn Waugh

#32. How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it?

Marcel Proust

#33. Maybe they seeded life on Earth millions of years ago, and now they're here to punish us for turning out to be such a lame species and inventing reality TV and shit?

Ernest Cline

#34. Pretty much any given day, barring some major distraction, I get melodies coming to me. Lyrics don't come quite as easily. So I've been inventing little projects and challenges to sort of kick my ass with the lyrics.

Andrew Bird

#35. In the 1970s, I did a Ph.D. with Fred Sanger in Cambridge who was in the process of inventing ways to map what's inside DNA. He later won the Nobel Prize.

Elizabeth Blackburn

#36. Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people.

Ayana Mathis

#37. Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.

Biz Stone

#38. People say they are inventing electric cars. Well, where is the electricity coming from? Flowers? Maybe someday. But what is available now is oil and gas.

Christophe De Margerie

#39. Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tube by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at drying up the water, constantly inventing new, expensive, and refined methods of drying up water. Somebody should teach them how to close the tap.

Denis Parsons Burkitt

#40. In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

Aristotle.

#41. I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently.

Shigeru Ban

#42. Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.

Salvador Dali

#43. Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. You can sell a lot of junk to a lot of people by inventing a stage of life and giving it a name.

Jill Lepore

#44. Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises.

Albert Memmi

#45. The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors.

Donald Sadoway

#46. I never was the battle rapper. That was never my thing. I always felt like it's enough room for everybody to do their thing. I like bringing new energy, re-inventing the wheel, so to speak, every time I come out.

Nelly

#47. I've turned down too many gods to
Start inventing my own now
Or believe in yours either.

Joanna McClure

#48. Puppies are constantly inventing new ways to be bad. It's fascinating. You come into a room they've been in and see pieces of debris and try to figure out what you had that was made from wicker or what had been stuffed with fluff.

Julie Klam

#49. Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.

William Zinsser

#50. Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.

Orhan Pamuk

#51. There's a huge misconception that innovation is mostly about inventing or coming up with cool new things. More often than not, innovation is about figuring out what people really need or want but can't have or afford.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#52. All the means we've been given to stay alert we use to ornament our sleep. If instead of endlessly inventing new ways to make life more comfortable we'd apply our ingenuity to fabricating instruments to jog man out of his torpor!

Rene Daumal

#53. The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

Orson Scott Card

#54. So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things.

Peter Carey

#55. We inhabit a universe that is still inventing itself

Peter Corning

#56. In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.

Carol P. Christ

#57. When we justify a flaw we are actually inventing a new one. When a woman neglects developing her own character, she not only chisels away her own reputation, but the reputation of everyone in her household.
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Michael Ben Zehabe

#58. 'Big Sky Mountain' is the story of Hutch Carmody and Kendra Shepherd, lovers with a history, and a lot of hurt pride. The book is about finding their way back to each other, growing as people, and inventing a life they can share.

Linda Lael Miller

#59. You can call me an angry ghost when I'm gone, or laugh into my disposition. But my mom will still see me as her wide-eyed wanderer out behind the garage inventing ways to fend off dog attacks that will probably never happen.

Buddy Wakefield

#60. In the linchpin economy, the winners are once again the artists who give gifts. Giving a gift makes you indispensable. Inventing a gift, creating art - that is what the market seeks out, and the givers are the ones who earn our respect and attention.

Seth Godin

#61. The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.

Anais Nin

#62. Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

Gary Hamel

#63. As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

Mitchel Resnick

#64. I have a gift for inventing fantasies with extraordinary speed.

Paulo Coelho

#65. My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.

Justin Cronin

#66. Our domestic lives reflect the major trend that dominates the consumer marketplace today: an ever-increasing emphasis on variety and choice ... we find ourselves inventing our lives as we go along, improvising in an effort to take advantage of the bewildering range of choices that we face.

Sally Helgesen

#67. Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever observed an uncaused cause and simply inventing one merely assumes what the argument wishes to prove.

Dan Barker

#68. ...dismayed that I would pass up true adventure for the sake of a fake one I'd never get around to inventing.

Hollis Gillespie

#69. We will spend the rest of the day inventing a kind of love that no longer exists in the world, a kind of love no army can pillage at the outposts, no rumor could bring to its knees like a traitor.

Richard Jackson

#70. From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.

Madeline Kahn

#71. Who knows if all our brains are inventing the same thing? I mean, how do we know that the thing YOUR eyes see and call "red" is the same thing that I call "red"?

Jaclyn Moriarty

#72. She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#73. I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and tradition than in inventing a unique imagery.

Nathan Oliveira

#74. Most of my favourite guitarists are self-taught, because in a way there's less of a reverence for the instrument itself, so you end up finding and inventing however you want to play it.

Bryce Dessner

#75. The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

Al Gore

#76. Just the other day someone threw a bra duct-taped to a tennis ball. I just stood there, playing guitar, thinking how this was totally premeditated. Some girl sat around inventing a way to get her bra onstage from 40 rows back.

Dave Grohl

#77. Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain.

Paul Daniels

#78. Symbolic thinking of any kind would signal downfall, in Crake's view. Next they'd be inventing idols, and funerals, and grave goods, and the afterlife, and sin, and Linear B, and kings, and then slavery and war.

Margaret Atwood

#79. I want to kiss her like we're inventing the idea.

A. Wilding Wells

#80. Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions.

Genrich Altshuller

#81. How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child? We can replace the narratives that hold us back by inventing wiser stories, free from childish fears, and, in doing so, disperse long-held psychological stumbling blocks.

Benjamin Zander

#82. Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man. A criminal fraud case would require that the reporter's deceit had been malicious and resulted in financial gain.

Brendan I. Koerner

#83. Sure, best seller. I'd love to knock Stephen King off the top of the list. I know I won't, but, after all, I spend my life inventing a different reality.

Tim O'Brien

#84. creativity isn't a luxury. It's the essence of life. It's what distinguishes us from the mush. And it's why our ancestors survived while other less adaptive critters perished. They responded to change by being creative in some way, by inventing a new answer to the chaos.

Danny Gregory

#85. For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.

John Edgar Wideman

#86. How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.

Barbara Kingsolver

#87. When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it - rather, I am remembering a story that has already happened.

John Irving

#88. Gypsy [Rose Lee] wasn't a linear person, and she didn't live life in a linear fashion. She was relentlessly self-inventing, and moved backward as often as she moved forward.

Karen Abbott

#89. You don't become a success by breaking the rules. You don't become a success by obeying the rules. You become a success by inventing the rules.

Chloe Thurlow

#90. Thinking remembering how his uncle had said that all man had was time, all that stood between him and the death he feared and abhorred was time yet he spent half of it inventing ways of getting the other half past:

William Faulkner

#91. I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing.

Peter Weir

#92. While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the chronology of conquered cities. Yet I did not play with the central events of that time.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#93. I tell young people to reach for the stars. And I can't think of a greater high than you could possibly get than by inventing something.

Stephanie Kwolek

#94. The sense that everything is going wrong has existed in every era, and rightly so since men have found no greater pleasure than in inventing new ways to make each other miserable.

Emil Cioran

#95. The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

Charles C. Mann

#96. I never had the time or luxury to think about inventing my own colour theory. When colour came, I was interested in expressing things that happened around me in time.

Rene Burri

#97. We're all innately creative; I'm not bringing anything magical to it. Ninety percent of inventing is putting in the hours and just trying. You don't need to make a big leap - you - need to take a thousand small steps.

James Jorash

#98. There is no re-inventing the wheel.

Sean Penn

#99. I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.

Jerry B. Jenkins

#100. I love to make movies about young people - young scientists that are inventing things and all the writing they did was very funny and very true.

Vilmos Zsigmond