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Quotes About Inventiveness

I wouldn't do that, Silk advised. Thinking about it isn't going to help, and it's only going to make you nervous. Nervouser, Garion corrected. I'm already nervous. Is there such a word as 'nervouser'? Silk asked Belgarath curiously. There is now, Belgarath replied. Garion just invented it. I wish I could invent a word, Silk said admiringly to Garion.
~ David Eddings
I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
~ William Shakespeare
If I can't find a good enough story I make one.
~ Holly Black
Doc Brown had a feverous imagination. He was constantly coming up with new ways and solutions to various issues, and time travel was one of them. I was just very inspired by being able to portray somebody of that sort. He's a man of tremendous energy and excitement about discovery.
~ Christopher Lloyd
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.
~ Francis Bacon
Good innovators like to solve business crossword puzzles.
~ Scott D. Anthony
The secret of success in business is creativity.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
You do not need to be writing or painting or sculpting in order to be creative. You must simply create.
~ David Levithan
L'inspiration, c'est l'occasion du génie.
~ Honore de Balzac
The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.
~ Ian Hacking
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Being original is the best thing you'll ever be.
~ Unknown
A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
For me, what makes a dope concept is it's a fresh idea, something that I've never heard before.
~ Poo Bear
It's never been my goal to create something that is found on the internet elsewhere. I only want to create things that are new.
~ Molly Yeh
Smith believed that the best way to promote trade was to trust to the self-interest and inventiveness of individual traders.
~ Unknown
Amabile and others have found that extrinsic rewards can be effective for algorithmic tasks—those that depend on following an existing formula to its logical conclusion. But for more right-brain undertakings—those that demand flexible problem-solving, inventiveness, or conceptual understanding—contingent rewards can be dangerous.
~ Daniel H. Pink
We look for companies that are unlike anything we've ever seen before, with a bold vision to change the world and run by passionate entrepreneurs who get you jumping out of your seat.
~ Steve Jurvetson
In the same week he would harass an Under-Secretary about horses from the Army, write voluminously to the press about a gun he had invented for potting aeroplanes, give a fancy-dress ball which he forgot to attend, and get in the semi-final of the racquets championship.
~ John Buchan
Seve was one of the most talented and exciting golfers to ever play the game. His creativity and inventiveness on the golf course may never be surpassed. His death came much too soon.
~ Tiger Woods
To make a mark, you have to do something different.
~ Parineeti Chopra
Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.
~ John Ruskin
I'm trying to be original I'm trying to be unique, I don't want to follow people I want them to follow me.
~ Unknown
We believe that economic progress comes from the inventiveness, ability, determination and the pioneering spirit of extraordinary men and women. If they cannot exercise that spirit here, they will go away to another free enterprise country which will then make more economic progress than we do.
~ Margaret Thatcher