Education Quote by Thomas Heatherwick Download Open image “I thought I wanted to be an inventor but then discovered you couldn't study inventing!” — Thomas Heatherwick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Inventing Study Then Thought Wanted
I'd like to be an inventor, as they look at the world in a different way and find solutions for making it better. — Neil Jackson Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or… — David Antin Copy Share Image
I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something. — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
If I look into my past, I was definitely into inventors. I was into stories of Edison and Tesla and da Vinci and all… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I'd been taking things apart and inventing things since I was a little kid... I still have memories as a child trying to really… — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
I had to learn everything about manufacturing, patents and how to run a business, and eventually I came up with an prototype that worked. — Melissa George Copy Share Image
When I was little, I just was very tuned in to the functionality and aesthetics of things around me. — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
I try to be a positive person, but I'm also always looking and wondering, 'Maybe this could be done differently.' As soon as your… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
The British government - any government - is potentially the worst [architectural] client in the world. — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea that culture… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
Everything that we start is something that we don't know what the outcome is going to be. — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
I'm in love with cities. I find them amazing, the quiet co-ordination of thousands of people, going about what we're trying to do, and… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
I'm not really interested in creating things to be seen inside a private gallery. I'm interested in creating things that are all around us,… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
The Garden Bridge has not found its right moment, but I hope one day it will and that London continues to be open to… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
Often the most important moment in the design process is figuring out what the right question is. — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
When I heard of the 'garden bridge' idea, it seemed so clear and powerful, the notion of using nature to scale down an enormous… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
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For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
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According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image