I've heard some designers talk about the design process being centred on invention, starting with a blank slate. I admire that and… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Music and art are two very different activities for me. However, the use of imagery links them, and invention is important for… — Ed Askew Copy Share Image
A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
The narrow gauge mindset of the past is insufficient for today’s wicked problems. We can no longer play the music as written.… — Marty Neumeier Copy Share Image
No one can see ahead three years, let alone five or ten. Competition, new inventions - all kinds of things - can… — Thomas Rowe Price, Jr Copy Share Image
I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
If it wasn't for my primary school teacher reminding me to be observant, I may not have had the inspiration to think… — Zhou Qunfei Copy Share Image
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
When scandal has new-minted an old lie, Or tax'd invention for a fresh supply, 'Tis call'd a satire, and the world appears… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or… — Edward J. Fraughton Copy Share Image
I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure.... And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention.… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“The strength of a patent doesn’t come from its claims, it comes from the invention” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Sleep was the greatest invention in the history of mankind. When I was sleeping, I wasn’t feeling guilty, or miserable, or sad. — Jenna Black Copy Share Image
[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world? How does it so fail to hold our attention… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it. — Tim Finn Copy Share Image
The world isn't getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more... The… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore. — Nick Clooney Copy Share Image
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