Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not ‘invent’ the unconscious.
Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you feel those people filling your life.
If we’re going to get this country out of its current energy situation, we can’t just conserve our way out; we can’t just drill our way out; we can’t bomb our way out. We’re going to do it the old-fashioned American way, we’re going to invent our way out, working together.
Joseph Wambaugh did not invent the police novel, but no one had seen anything like ‘The New Centurions’ when it was published in 1971. Here was a working, living, breathing cop with a decade of experience on the beat.
The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the exams written by people who are trained in another generation.
I’m a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.
I think people need to see Prince live to really understand how remarkable he is. He has always been inspiring because he is never afraid to break rules or barriers or invent something new – and if you love fashion, then you need to be able to do that.
What happens often – although I’m not particularly a victim of this sort of thing – is that somebody will make a quote, or invent a remark and it gets printed, ends up on the ‘net and it becomes currency. And some of them are so bizarre!
All the companies I’ve worked for have this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunting and gathering cultures of 100,000 years ago. If businesses could find a way to invent ‘agriculture,’ we could put the world back together and all would prosper.
I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.
You can only really invent something if you connect yourself to the real world – whatever that means.
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.
Obama doesn’t know how to invent the iPhone; he can’t start a successful business. He’s never really worked in a business except for the briefest of times.
Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal, instantly recognizable visual style. In the early nineties, Wolfgang Tillmans did just that, transforming himself into a new kind of artist-photographer of modern life.
Everything I do, I put my full heart into. I don’t want to be just another actor, another singer, another artist. I want to invent history.
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
My training and my inclination is to invent.
Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.
Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can’t invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
The Russians didn’t invent partisan divides. The Russians haven’t invented racism in the United States. But the Russians understand a lot of those divisions and they understand how to exploit them.
The reality is, is that we love competition, at Apple. We think it makes us all better. But we want people to invent their own stuff.
Reporters do decide what is news, but they don’t invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC’s Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt.
Re: Invent is different from the typical technology-industry conference in that it’s not a sales and marketing event, but about learning and education.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully – also bring… emotional relevance to the piece.
It’s in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie’s birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That’s why I like Charlie Parker.
This is America. And we’ve basically invented the computer, and we should invent ways to protect all those that use it.
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.
The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.
In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
I don’t think it’s my duty to dismiss rumours which other people invent.
We didn’t invent gunpowder. What we did was take things that were there and put them together in a way that works.
It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.
We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan – why? Because we need him; there’s something fascinating about the other side of the coin.
There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use.
To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn’t have to be an issue. It shouldn’t box you in.
Vanity is not having facelifts if you’re ugly. Those people who say: ‘Oh, I’d never dream of having anything done!’ That’s rude. It’s rude, to other people, to not try and look your best; to not try and stir things up, to not reinvent… or just invent… it’s one’s duty to not get stuffy.
I had a hundred things I wanted to be, but when I was 13, I wanted to be an inventor. I wanted to improve the blow-dryer because it takes so long to blow-dry your hair, and it’s just a waste of time. I wanted to invent the therm-alarm, which would have you throw your sheets off in the night when you got too hot.
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
God forgives those who invent what they need.
Italy is a tough country to be a comedian in – I can’t invent stuff like this. Nearly eighty crooks in Parliament – that’s about one crook in twelve. It’s worse than Scampia, the most dangerous Naples slum, which is infested by the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia. There, the criminals are only one in fifteen!
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.
It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
You don’t have to invent the wheel, but you might want to be the company that invents the rims.
The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
With the violin, for example, one understands culturally that the sound comes from the instrument that can be seen. With electronic music, it is not the same at all. That’s why it seemed so important to me, from the beginning of my career, to invent a grammar, a visual vocabulary adapted to electronic music.
Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats?
You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we’ve come up with doing that is through companies.
It’s as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn’t a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There’s been lots more like him, and it’s a shame they don’t get Nobel Prizes.
My challenge to all Republicans is to invent the systems and approaches to help people help themselves.
The Right doesn’t usually threaten to leave the country. When the Right feels threatened, it just declares it is going to invent a time machine to take the country back so that America can be ‘great again.’
Indeed, children thrown together in a community that doesn’t have a language of its own will invent one in order to communicate with each other.
