Invention Quotes - Page 30

• Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

  Jonathan Swift

  Nails, Mindfulness, Scratches

  Jonathan Swift (2011). “Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings”, p.625, Bantam Classics

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• In HEATHEN, R. Flowers Rivera remixes the classical and the Biblical, the usual and the typical until what we thought we knew of ourselves and others is new again. The mythic becomes particular; the particular becomes mythic in these fascinating poems of personalities and personas. Rivera’s work is rich in empathy and invention. Heathen is a book of psalms for the present day.

  Terrance Hayes

  Flower, Book, Biblical

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• We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Opportunity, Practice, People

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2008). “Man Alone with Himself”, p.33, Penguin UK

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• The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy.

  Paul Hawken

  Philosophy, Creative, Promise

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• I think it's very important - no matter what you may do professionally - to keep alive some of the healthy interests of your youth. Children's play is not just kids' stuff. Children's play is rather the stuff of most future inventions.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Kids, Thinking

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• One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value and the uncertainty of its fate continually operate, night and day, to produce this destructive effect. Having no real value in itself it depends for support upon accident, caprice, and party; and as it is the interest of some to depreciate and of others to raise its value, there is a continual invention going on that destroys the morals of the country.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Real, Party

  Thomas Paine (2014). “Selected Writings of Thomas Paine”, p.164, Yale University Press

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• Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.

  James Carroll

  Memories, Stories, Definitions

  James Carroll (1997). “An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us”, p.283, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We don't need new discoveries or new inventions to reverse this trend. We have the tools at our disposal to reverse it. All we need is the motivation, the opportunity and the willpower to do what needs to be done. ...With this report, we have a very solid road map that we need to make these goals real, to solve this problem within a generation.

  Michelle Obama

  Motivation, Children, Real

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• Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Teacher, Art, Hunger

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• Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance.

  Pablo Picasso

  Mean, Progress, Use

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• Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Father, Women

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• I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.

  Coco Chanel

  Thinking, Sky, Design

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• When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.

  Jamais Cascio

  Memories, Space, Radio

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• Your audacious life goals are fabulous. We're proud of you for having them. But it's possible that those goals are designed to distract you from the thing that's really frightening you--the shift in daily habits that would mean a re-invention of how you see yourself.

  Seth Godin

  Mean, Goal, Proud

  "Crash diets and good habits". sethgodin.typepad.com. August 21, 2012.

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• The book is man's best invention so far.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Book, Men

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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• There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It's just that my inventions are different. I often get asked about my artifice, but isn't fashion based on the idea that we can create a fantasy?

  Lady Gaga

  Fashion, Ideas, Different

  "The Real Lady Gaga". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 6, 2011.

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• I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update.

  Art Spiegelman

  Book, Needs, Updates

  "Art Spiegelman On The Future of the Book". Interview with Brian Heater, www.publishersweekly.com. October 11, 2011.

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• Morality was probably the invention of unattractive men. Whom else does it benefit really

  Manu Joseph

  Men, Doe, Benefits

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• Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of inextinguishable hatred for one another.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Hatred, Religion

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• To me the bicycle is in many ways a more satisfactory invention than the automobile. It is consonant with the independence of man because it works under his own power entirely. There is no combustion of some petroleum product..to set the pedals going. Purely mechanical instruments like watches and bicycles are to be preferred to engines that depend on the purchase of power from foreign sources....The price of power is enslavement.

  Louis J. Halle

  Men, Cycling, Independence

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• In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his value in terms of material payment, no matter what fortune he makes, no matter what millions he earns. But the man who works as a janitor in the factory producing that invention, receives an enormous payment in proportion to the mental effort that his job requires of him. And the same is true of all men between, on all levels of ambition and ability.

  Ayn Rand

  Jobs, Ambition, Men

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.1005, Penguin

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• The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a universal means of resolving all knots.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Mean, Science, Men

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.107, Penguin

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• A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention its so exciting to be confronted by possibility.

  Nicky Wire

  Paper, Pages, Possibility

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• The arts not only imbue our sense of sight, balance, movement, touch and hearing, they also lift our logical minds - the traditional focus of modern education - into the reaches of possibility, invention and genius.

  Eugene Schwartz

  Art, Sight, Focus

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• In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Change, Art, Frustration

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