Invent Quotes

The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent and discover and practical, the ability to apply and use what you know.

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars.

For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations, accumulate capital and invent better ways of doing things.

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there.

I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.

Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.

If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day.

Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products.

I didn't just invent saying offensive things.

I like to experiment a lot and invent things.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.

I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something.

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.