Invent Quotes

693 Invent quotes by 543 unique authors

What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate-and immediately forget we… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly… — William James
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each… — Marcel Proust
Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea. — Jacqueline Leo
I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living. — Edward Burtynsky
Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent. — David Rockwell
My wish for humanity is to invent a way to communicate between us and whatever comes next. And in the end that we the creator… — Sugata Mitra
Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you feel… — Danielle Steel
You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself. — Juliette Binoche
I think people need to see Prince live to really understand how remarkable he is. He has always been inspiring because he is never afraid… — Donatella Versace
I used to be a freelance journalist, so I had to write fast, but I always found writing nonfiction constraining. I like the freedom of… — Michelle Gagnon
To what extent do we self-construct, do we self-invent? How do we self-identify, and how mutable is that identity? Like, what if one could be… — Sarah Jones
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one. — Charles J. Shields
Anyone who has set out to invent a purely imaginary story knows that the whole thing is fantasy, from beginning to end; there must be… — Russell Smith
So much of what I do... is coming up with new characters and trying to invent voices for them, and to have people fully fleshed… — Rob Thomas
It would be really great if someone would invent a new Internet with the specific purpose of not making money off of it, but making… — Todd Rundgren
The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me… — Aaron Patzer
I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform. — Philippe Petit
Even as a college professor at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, I saw myself as an entrepreneur, and I went out, took risks, and tried to… — Sebastian Thrun
I have the power to write these books where I invent characters that I really like, and it gets to come out the way they… — Ruth Glick
When I started on my research, I never expected I could invent the LED and laser diode. — Shuji Nakamura
Musical harmony is based on physical principles, while in cooking, ingredients must be weighed out with precision. At the same time, you have to be… — Fabiola Gianotti
Research into manned spaceflight is shifting from low-Earth orbit to destinations much further away, like Mars and the asteroid belt. But society will have to… — Andy Weir
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. — Alan Kay
If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he… — Charles Edward Merriam

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