Invent Quotes

693 Invent quotes by 543 unique authors

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the… — Abdul Kalam
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became… — L. Frank Baum
To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It… — Ernest Hemingway
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders… — John Dos Passos
I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a… — Zaha Hadid
I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will… — Thomas Paine
If we're going to get this country out of its current energy situation, we can't just conserve our way out. We can't just drill our… — Donald Sadoway
Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work. — Harold Rosenberg
That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that… — Terry Pratchett
We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to… — Jaron Lanier
It is striking how our language reveals the visual nature of our thoughts about the future state of affairs. When we invent the future, we… — James M. Kouzes
You wan't to invent new ideas, not new rules. — Dan Heath
To learn is to incur surprise-I mean really learning, not just refreshing our memory or adding a new fact. And to invent is to bestow… — John H. Lienhard
Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they… — Unknown Author
Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in… — Fred Reed
Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already… — J. G. Ballard
The events inspired characters that truly existed, as well as fictitious people I had to invent. Sometimes the harsh reality was too much, too absurd.… — Unknown Author
Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing. — Germaine Greer
Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to… — Maya Angelou
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
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
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
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
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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