Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention. — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
Inventions become perfect by slow improvement, and each step is itself an invention. — Joseph Jastrow Copy Share Image
“We mustn't be afraid of inventing anything...Everething there is in us exists in nature. After all, we're part of nature. If it… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
None of my neighbors believe in what I say. They refuse to wear the rings. They will never accept my invention until… — Alex Chiu Copy Share Image
The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
We have a duty towards music; namely to invent it. ...Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it. For the… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“[ From a New York Times biography from May 27, 2010 entitled Introduction to Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Second Sex' ] Beauvoir… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I hate it. I just do. That [artificial turf], local news, the IRS, and hair dryers are the four worst inventions of… — Beano Cook Copy Share Image
The problem with describing poets as legislators is that at that level of politics - politics as political invention - poets have… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don’t need to worry about me;… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention. — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image