Quotes About Inventiveness

A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.

Jack had wondered how geometers could be so inventive as to produce so many types and families of curves. Later he had come to perceive that of curves there was no end, and the true miracle was that poets, or writers, or whoever it was that was in charge of devising new words, could keep pace with those hectic geometers, and slap names on all the whorls and snarls in the pages of the Doctor's geometry-books.

if everything you have learned is what everyone else knows, no one will ever beat a path to your door.

Every day, be creative. Creativity is a muscle.

I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.

It is better to be creative than curious.

When EA acquired Bullfrog there were, like, 35 people, and within nine months there were 200. And any feeling of culture and inventiveness was diluted by that.

If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.

You are far too stolid and unimaginative, Watson, to invent a tale like that.

The idea of Israel as a start-up nation - everybody knows that. And Israel is also a creative nation.

Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.

Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.

We must dare to invent the future.

my life's motto: If you're not willing to invent cool-sounding bullshit about yourself, don't expect others to.

I can see there's a connection between not following normal thinking and doing creative thinking. I wouldn't have had good scientific ideas if I had thought more normally.

This is also, I hope, a book about innovation. At a time when the United States is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build creative digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness, imagination, and sustained innovation.

inventiveness, imagination, and sustained innovation. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology

great innovations are usually the result of ideas that flow from a large

What made Leonardo a genius, what set him apart from people who are merely extraordinarily smart, was creativity, the ability to apply imagination to intellect.

innovative creativity that it would outlive them.

You can invent your way to a better place.

tinker with a lot of contraptions. A few months after Franklin returned to Philadelphia, Dr. Spencer came

We are indeed seeing in our time the birth of a global superculture that pours together bits and pieces of many different cultures. But it is not just a combination of pieces, and neither will it be merely an homogenization; human beings are far too inventive for that, and the human mind is far too complex. We

Today, Korea is one of the most 'inventive' nations in the world-it ranks among the top five nations in terms of the number of patents granted annually by the US Patent Office.