Inventing Quotes · Page 4

Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.

— Ray Dolby

For me, inventing video games was just one successful thing I had done among many others.

— Ralph H. Baer

Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.

— Ray Kurzweil

In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

— Mark Twain

Implementing best practice is copying yesterday; innovation is inventing tomorrow.

— Paul Sloane

Some libertarians succeed by re-inventing the wheel. Most libertarians fail by re-inventing the flat tire.

— Mike Cloud

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

— Gary Hamel

The Gospel is like water; no man invented it, yet no man can live without it.

— Reinhard Bonnke

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…

— Karen Abbott

You can call me an angry ghost when I'm gone, or laugh into my disposition. But my mom will still see me…

— Buddy Wakefield

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not…

— Ben Elton

When I think about the real pioneers of the psychedelic movement in a musical sense, not just the culture, everything had a…

— Chris Robinson

The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

— Jean Piaget

One out of five voters voted on this, and 70 percent of the issues that people voted on issues and they thought…

— Mary Matalin

“The sense that everything is going wrong has existed in every era, and rightly so since men have found no greater pleasure…

— Emil Cioran

Inventing characters is extraordinary: proper authors say so often that characters 'just appear' and that does happen. These people keep leaping out…

— Sheila Hancock

“I don't know who explained this rule to me; maybe it was the product of my own speculations and fantasies. That would…

— Cesar Aira

Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions.…

— Robin Wasserman

It's an art installation to put out a collection, with the people behind the scenes who are inventing and creating these designs…

— Tom Riley

I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with…

— Alber Elbaz

I'm an absolute fan of Angela Bassett. I think she's a great, great actress. In the biopics, she is so moving. She's…

— Arnaud Desplechin

Marketers keep inventing desires, necessities for you and for me. I need this. I need that. I need. I need. It's the…

— Giannina Braschi

Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history…

— Gerda Lerner

Some say Christianity is just a crutch. But let's turn the question on its edge for a moment. Is atheism an emotional…

— Greg Koukl

i wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself..

— Miranda July

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

— Janis Ian

Smart phones are re-inventing the connections between companies and their customers.

— Rich Miner

I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.

— Jerry B. Jenkins

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

— Aristotle

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

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

— Donald Sadoway

Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.

— R. C. Sproul

I'm the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head - I don't have to be in the lab…

— Woody Norris

Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.

— Frontinus

“Everything looks so much alike that you wonder how people got the idea of inventing names, to make distinctions.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“I’ve turned down too many gods to Start inventing my own now Or believe in yours either.”

— Joanna McClure

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

— Charles Kettering

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

— Antonin Scalia

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.

— Margaret Heffernan

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

— Francis Ford Coppola