Inventive Quotes
85 quotes by 81 authors
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I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there…
— Drew Barrymore
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America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information.
— Tom Clancy
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Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such…
— Wyndham Lewis
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The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men…
— Jean Piaget
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A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be modest,…
— George Polya
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It seems to me that most good protagonists are both clever and resourceful. They are intelligent and can fix things, both little and big. They…
— Keren Woodward
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We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less…
— Barack Obama
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Zachary Jernigan can't write a bad story. He couldn't even if he tried. Each and every time I start one of his inventive, carefully crafted,…
— David Anthony Durham
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Amity Gaige has written a flawless book. It does not contain a single false note. Playful and inventive, SCHRODER movingly depicts the ways we confound…
— David Bezmozgis
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She's a shiksa goddess and a trapeze artist, all of that. She can fix the truck...she's outta this world...she's bold, inventive and fearless. That's who…
— Tom Waits
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That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things,…
— Frederick Jackson Turner
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A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good
— Sophocles
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From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use…
— Melissa George
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As I review the nature of the creative drive in the inventive scientists that have been around me, as well as in myself, I find…
— Edwin Land
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Don't stint on foreplay - or afterplay. Be inventive!
— Ruth Westheimer
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If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.
— Jeff Bezos
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Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance.
— Holger Czukay
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Peter Watts delivers-solid, inventive hard sf about the deep sea, but as we've never seen before. This moves like the wind.
— Gregory Benford
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