Inventing Quotes
196 Inventing quotes by 181 unique authors
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Women can do anything men can do. Except math, chess, running, jumping, lifting stuff, fixing things, making money, hockey, surfing, driving, making decisions, being tall,…
— Daniel Tosh
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Just the other day someone threw a bra duct-taped to a tennis ball. I just stood there, playing guitar, thinking how this was totally premeditated.…
— Dave Grohl
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Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.
— David Antin
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They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually interrupted labour (especially,…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de…
— Gilles Deleuze
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I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently.
— Shigeru Ban
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There's a huge misconception that innovation is mostly about inventing or coming up with cool new things. More often than not, innovation is about figuring…
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Implementing best practice is copying yesterday; innovation is inventing tomorrow.
— Paul Sloane
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If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.
— Robert Foster Bennett
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Smart phones are re-inventing the connections between companies and their customers.
— Unknown Author
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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
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It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe,…
— William Kittredge
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From this time everything was copulated. Acetic, formic, butyric, margaric, &c., acids, alkaloids, ethers, amides, anilides, all became copulated bodies. So that to make acetanilide,…
— Auguste Laurent
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Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to the field whose paradigm they…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't…
— Bill Gates
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The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have…
— Jeanette Winterson
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What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing…
— Philip Glass
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I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing.
— Peter Weir
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... so much of what we do now started in 1954 at Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee ... those guys were inventing that stuff (Rock…
— Brian Setzer
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The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.
— Jeff Bezos
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