Invent Quotes
693 quotes by 543 authors
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The fact that I have entered into IT-related business is proof that businesses have to evolve and keep with time. One has to re-invent continuously.
— Kerry Packer
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Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to…
— Nicholas Delbanco
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Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness unless you attack…
— June Jordan
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We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and thy're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent.…
— Jeff Bezos
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We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies…
— Edward Dahlberg
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We can invent only with memory.
— Alphonse Karr
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Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
— Elias Canetti
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The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing…
— Mark Twain
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If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another.
— Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
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I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.
— William Shakespeare
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The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.
— Seth Godin
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If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Humans test their brand new wings and invent new possibilities using new-fangled things not with grim determination, but with play.
— Howard Bloom
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We invent what we love and what we fear.
— John Irving
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There is nothing to learn about love. Everything is already there, in our genes, in our nature. We don't have to learn anything except what…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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What some people invent the rest enlarge.
— Jonathan Swift
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Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
— Adrienne Rich
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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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