Words matter. These are the best Invent Quotes from famous people such as Voltaire, Jim Crace, Howard Barker, R. L. Stine, David Ives, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
I invent words you think you’ve heard – spray hopper or swag beetle.
I never ‘say’ anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being ‘said’.
I love theme parks but I’m a real chicken on rides. I’d rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.
Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It’s as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.
No matter how skillful you are, you can’t invent a product advantage that doesn’t exist. And if you do, and it’s just a gimmick, it’s going to fall apart anyway.
There’s no way we can invent enough stuff for a company of Merck’s size.
I have the power to write these books where I invent characters that I really like, and it gets to come out the way they want it to come out, and I get to make it happen.
The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
Ronaldo? He is the most dangerous player at Real. It is hard to stop him, like Messi, because both score a lot of goals, and you never know what is going to be the next thing they will invent for scoring.
I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.
I think there are people watching me, and if ever I manage to save £1,000 there’s someone saying, ‘Oh, we’ll invent a tax to take that off him.’
Most of us don’t invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
I used to feel an obligation to invent things. I felt I was a failure because I didn’t do massive great novels about Australia or the outback or something. I just don’t feel that any more.
There’s certain key dance crazes that are just so much fun – wouldn’t that be a great thing to do, to invent a dance?
A website can be very time-intensive, but I’d love to have one where people can contribute to it – like invent islands and make their own flags, and their own laws. I think that’d be kind of fun.
I didn’t invent the bearded lady. It’s been around for ages, and there are so many bearded drag queens out there – but they’re not in the mainstream as I am.
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.
Each book, for me, has been an adventure, a period of time dedicated to study, to document certain facts, to traveling, and also to fantasize and to invent.
The only way to end up in the perfect future is to invent it yourself.
It gives me confidence to know that what I’m writing has a veracity of its own without me having to invent it. When I’m writing fiction, I must believe it to be true, or I can see no point in it.
My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.
You invent this massive lagoon of information without any pressure to do anything apart from create this person, a person that might fit the bill that is the character that is emerging from the research.
Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It’s a question of how those tools are used by people.
We at The Web Standards Project turned everything on its head. We said browsers should support the same standards instead of competing to invent new tags and scripting languages. We said designers, developers, and content folks should create one site that was accessible to everyone.
In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can’t grow the middle class if we don’t give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent.
After all, one knows one’s weak points so well, that it’s rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
Once you have speech, you don’t have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you build a stealth bomber; if you don’t like bacteria, you invent penicillin; if you want to communicate faster, you invent the Internet. Once speech evolved, all of human life changed.
It’s hard growing up in the limelight. People invent stories. They call me a man-eater. An innocent date with a friend becomes a major scandal.
Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.
I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.
My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They’re also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there’s an inner intelligence or logic.
I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.
If you invent something, you’re doing a creative act. It’s like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It’s years of your life, it’s your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.
America is the only major country that tries to ascertain who was the first applicant to invent the product or procedure. This may seem fair, but long proceedings to determine precisely when each party conceived an idea result mostly in keeping innovations from hitting the market.
We didn’t invent anything new. Hospitality has been around forever.
I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.
Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products.
I didn’t just invent saying offensive things.
‘The Sopranos’ only reflected the tenor of how things are done in New Jersey. They didn’t invent it. And I say that as a fan of both ‘The Sopranos’ and New Jersey.
Whenever I have had to write fiction, I’ve always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
We are always looking ahead to anticipate what next, and our unique innovation architecture enables us to take an innovation-led approach to help our clients invent the future.
Did I invent anything? I don’t think so, not really. But if I’ve helped make history fun… then my work here is done.
I invent nothing, I rediscover.
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
People who’ve had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.
Tradition is the great misleader because it’s too easy to follow what has already been done – even though you may think you’re giving it a kick. I was really trying to invent, instead of merely expressing myself.
I really can’t write fantasy. I cannot invent a world which does not exist. And I can’t read fantasy either. As soon as I realise I’m reading a book that hasn’t got its roots in a reality I can comprehend, I switch off.
Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He’s always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.
I see that idea that we need a new form as something critical. I mean, we do need to invent and not be benchmarking all the time. That’s important to me.
I invent by analogy. I thought, ‘It’s commonplace that you can mix colors, smear them together to get new emerging colors. Likewise, you can mix radio waves to get new frequencies.’ So, I wondered, ‘Why can’t you mix sound to get new sounds?’
We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.
Certain product categories become less attractive for us because, as they become mature, they become low-cost, and hence, there is less to invent. There is less to invent in a television, whereas in heath technology, there is a lot to invent. So we wanted to put our innovative power to work where it really matters.
Wallace and Gromit’s contraptions are created purely for gags, but we all have the urge to invent – especially children. If they’re bored, kids will make something from cardboard boxes, yoghurt pots, tape and elastic bands. Often, those constructions are the best.
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.
It’s very, very difficult because we’re living in a world where they invent things in order to hide things from parents. There are these secret creator app guys who make things to intentionally do that, to keep your parents in the dark, and you’ve really got to work extra-hard to stay on top of it.
