Inventing Quotes - Page 10

• Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Spiritual, Fire, Sight

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.216

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• As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their lives, they will not be part of any narratives of their own…women will be staving off destiny and not inviting or inventing or controlling it.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Destiny, Long, Narrative

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• I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Character, World, Settings

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• Everytime we teach a child something, we prevent him from inventing it
  himself.

  Jean Piaget

  Children, Teach

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• Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.

  Isaac

  Wipe, Heroic, Forget

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• Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.

  Muriel Barbery

  Shapes, Talent, Invisible

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• My love and I are inventing a country, which we can already see taking shape, as if wheels were passing through yellow mud. But there is a problem: if we put a river in the country, it will thaw and begin flooding. If we put the river on the border, there will be trouble. If we forget about the river, there will be now way out. There is already a sky over that country, waiting for clouds or smoke. Birds have flown into it, too. Each evening more trees fill with their eyes, and what they see we can never erase.

  Larry Levis

  Country, Eye, Clouds

  Larry Levis (1998). “The Afterlife: Poems”, Carnegie Mellon

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• Our goal has been to stay true to what people most love about the original Pirates! while upgrading, enhancing, and in some cases, re-inventing the game to make it a great experience for todays gamers.

  Sid Meier

  Games, People, Goal

  Interview with Kristan Reed, www.eurogamer.net. June 12, 2004.

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• Some libertarians succeed by re-inventing the wheel. Most libertarians fail by re-inventing the flat tire.

  Mike Cloud

  Libertarian, Succeed, Wheels

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• Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing specious proofs for the theory that universal values spring from, and that general interests are served by, the special privileges which they hold.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Spring, Special, Groups

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2013). “Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics”, p.117, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

  Helmut Jahn

  Creativity, Something New, Elimination

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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

  Doing You, Way, Selling

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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 languages.

  Philip Glass

  Talking, Focus, Listening

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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 change. These are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and conceive another set that can replace them.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Men, Break Through, Practice

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• The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Retirement, Impact, Careers

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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 done, when all I can handle is what I have done? The Maybe Islands are hostile to human life.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Islands, Choices, Done

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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 have good politicians; we had some really good politicians. But then we started inventing - electricity, steam engines, microprocessors, understanding genetics and medicine and things like that. Yes, stability and education are important - I'm not taking anything away from that - but innovation is the real driver of progress.

  Bill Gates

  Real, Medicine, Political

  "Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. March 13, 2014.

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• Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

  Charles Kettering

  Wisdom, Science, Discovery

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• An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Arrogance, Firsts, Claims

  "A Theory of Roughness". Interview with John Brockman, www.edge.org. December 20, 2004.

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• Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.

  Biz Stone

  Dream, Firsts, Steps

  Biz Stone (2014). “Things A Little Bird Told Me”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

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• 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 the narratives that hold us back by inventing wiser stories, free from childish fears, and, in doing so, disperse long-held psychological stumbling blocks.

  Benjamin Zander

  Children, Memories, Block

  Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander (2002). “The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life”, p.45, Penguin

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• Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does not agree that knowledge is obtained through Rothbard's Medieval 'investigation by a reason,' i.e., by inventing definitions and then deducing what your definitions implicitly assumed.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Essence, Doe, Definitions

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• As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Character, Empathy, Important

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• 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 and conversations which do not exit is no way for a grown man to behave.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Mother, Character, Men

  Sebastian Horsley (2016). “Dandy in the Underworld”, p.243, Hachette UK

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• Man keeps inventing things all the time.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Men, Inventing Things

  "Mikhail Kalashnikov: 'I sleep soundly'" by Nick Paton Walsh, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2003.

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