Invent Quotes
693 quotes by 543 authors
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Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian…
— Mario Vargas Llosa
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Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the Pythagorean theorem just…
— Jonathan Haidt
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Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite…
— Christine de Pizan
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The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art of what I…
— Donna Tartt
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You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come…
— Larry Page
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Honestly, we’ll compete with everybody. I love competition. As long as people invent their own stuff, I love competition.
— Tim Cook
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We don't only invent God; we also discover God. Looking at the creation, we strive to deduce the nature of the creator. We take familiar…
— Forrest Church
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In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.
— Antonio Machado
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Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge,…
— Helene Cixous
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... my daughter McKenna thought I sang with the Everly Brothers ... I said, 'no I was one of the Righteous Brothers' and she said…
— Bill Medley
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Since you may never discover the truth, invent it.
— Nicholas Lore
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I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.
— Mark Haddon
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Cubism is not a manner but an aesthetic, and even a state of mind; it is therefore inevitably connected with every manifestation of contemporary thought.…
— Juan Gris
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Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common sense. I am…
— Stephen Covey
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You understand, you do not invent stuff on this team. Guys that invent stuff will not play for me. Make the easy play
— John Calipari
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Governments and the military purport to protect the public from enemies, and if there were no enemies they would have to invent some, for the…
— Laurance Labadie
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I applaud the courage of he who accepts each and every one of the laws of a game he did not invent and was not…
— Juan Carlos Onetti
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That we do not discover reality but rather invent it is quite shocking for many people. And the shocking part about it - according to…
— Paul Watzlawick
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When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent…
— Paul Virilio
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We find or invent the cleverest means of attributing our sins to anything or anyone outside of ourselves.
— Paul Washer
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