Inventing Quotes

196 Inventing quotes by 181 unique authors

I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently. — Shigeru Ban
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
Implementing best practice is copying yesterday; innovation is inventing tomorrow. — Paul Sloane
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
Smart phones are re-inventing the connections between companies and their customers. — Unknown Author
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
... 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
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
Knowing how to look is a way of inventing. — Salvador Dali
Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history [do] not know… — Gerda Lerner
Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique… — Seth Godin
Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true. — Biz Stone
How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child? We can replace… — Benjamin Zander
The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors. — Charles C. Mann
Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently promoting what’s not working. — Derek Sivers
Man keeps inventing things all the time. — Mikhail Kalashnikov
I didn't want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room and inventing characters… — Sebastian Horsley
As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy. — Elizabeth Berg

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