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• What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Long, Use, Enough

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• I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking, of inventing, of imagining, of choosing, of deciding for themselves; this incapacity was expressed by their conformism; in every domain of life they employed only the abstract measure of money, because they were unable to trust to their own judgment.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Girl, Money, Motivation

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• Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the whole point. We're doing this to create a kind of sentimental past for people in decades to come. It's their past, their history we're inventing here. And it's not how I look now that matters. It's how I'll look in twenty-five years as clothing and faces change, as photographs change. The deeper I pass into death, the more powerful my picture becomes. Isn't this why picture-taking is so ceremonial? It's like a wake. And I'm the actor made up for the laying-out.

  Don DeLillo

  Powerful, Mean, Past

  Don DeLillo (2016). “Mao II”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• We believe unbelievable progress can be made, in both inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who need them.

  Bill Gates

  Children, Believe, Vaccines

  "Bill Gates: Vaccine-autism link 'an absolute lie'". Interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2011.

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• Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved novelist who had not set out to be a novelist, and who took little joy in the process of crafting novels. He loved talking to audiences. He liked writing screenplays. He liked being at the cutting edge of technology and inventing

  Douglas Adams

  Writing, Cutting, Technology

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.11, Del Rey

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• Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people.

  Ayana Mathis

  Writing, People, Imagination

  "Twelve Tribes of Hattie Author Ayana Mathis Talks Fiction, Family, and (Sometimes) Faking It". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. December 17, 2012.

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• I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of science fiction for a long, long time, and I'm very well-versed in science fact and science fiction.

  Jack Kirby

  Long, Joy, Fiction

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• The analytical writer observes the reader as he is; accordingly, he makes his calculation, sets his machine to make the appropriate effect on him. The synthetic writer constructs and creates his own reader; he does not imagine him as resting and dead, but lively and advancing toward him. He makes that which he had invented gradually take shape before the reader's eyes, or he tempts him to do the inventing for himself. He does not want to make a particular effect on him, but rather enters into a solemn relationship of innermost symphilosophy or sympoetry.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Eye, Doe, Machines

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• The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

  Craig Reucassel

  Differences, Genius, Able

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• I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less like inventing a nuclear bomb.

  Julia Cameron

  Creativity, Writing, Bombs

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.19, Penguin

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• No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius--a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Powerful, Clever, Long

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Another potentiality of our irrepressible juvenility is a capacity to maintain until the onset of senility an active creative interaction with our environment. We persist in exploring, investigating, inventing, discovering. In these respects humans of all eras, in all societies, all ages of life, are more like baby chimps and not at all like the sedate and rigidly conforming adult chimpanzee, who hasn't changed much since she was five or six years old.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Baby, Years, Creative

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tub by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at drying up the water, constantly inventing new, expensive, and refined methods of drying up water. Somebody should teach them how to close the tap.

  Denis Parsons Burkitt

  Doctors, Water, Tubs

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• I was watching one of those animal shows on the Discovery Channel. There was a guy inventing a shark bite suit. And there's only one way to test it. All right Jimmy, you got that shark suit on, it looks good... They want you to jump into this pool of sharks, and you tell us if it hurts when they bite you. Well, all right, but hold my sign. I don't wanna lose it.

  Bill Engvall

  Hurt, Animal, Discovery

  FaceBook post by Bill Engvall from Apr 10, 2013

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• It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

  Antonin Scalia

  Melting, Constitution, Illusion

  Antonin Scalia (2016). “Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents”, p.58, Regnery Publishing

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• 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, for example, they no longer employed acetic acid and aniline, but they re-copulated a copulated oxalic acid with a copulated ammonia. I am inventing nothing-altering nothing. Is it my fault if, when writing history, I appear to be composing a romance?

  Auguste Laurent

  Writing, Science, Romance

  David M. Knight, Auguste Laurent (1998). “The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Chemical method”, p.204, Taylor & Francis

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• Smart phones are re-inventing the connections between companies and their customers.

  Rich Miner

  Smart, Phones, Marketing

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• I enjoy inventing things out of fun. After all, life is a game, not a career.

  Brion Gysin

  Fun, Games, Careers

  "Brion Gysin: Tuning in to the Multimedia Age". Book edited by Jose Ferez Kuri (p. 4), 2003.

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• Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

  Gene Wilder

  Funny, Humorous, Directors

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• How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Loss, Losing, Foolish

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.162, Faber & Faber

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• 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

  Thinking, Car, Towns

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• Implementing best practice is copying yesterday; innovation is inventing tomorrow.

  Paul Sloane

  Best Practices, Yesterday, Thought Provoking

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• 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 out what people really need or want but can't have or afford.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  People, Thought Provoking, Innovation

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• I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently.

  Shigeru Ban

  Materials

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• Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality

  Gilles Deleuze

  Fiction, Levels, States

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