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Quotes About Invent

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
To think, analyze and invent are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself.
~ Juliette Binoche
We invent these systems with the aim of ensuring fairness, she said, and yet the human situation is so complex that it always evades our attempts to encompass it.
~ Rachel Cusk
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.
~ Robert M. La Follette
I wanted to do a naval film and I flirted with different ideas, most of which ended up being too intense. So when the idea of 'Battleship' was first suggested, I was instantly drawn to the challenge - could I invent a movie around the idea of five ships fighting five ships?
~ Peter Berg
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
~ J. G. Ballard
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
~ James Graham Ballard
Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
~ Alan Kay
The best way tp predict the future is to invent it.
~ Alan Kay
we predict the future, the best way to predict the future is to invent it
~ Alan Kay
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
~ Murray Kempton
To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
~ Gore Vidal
Few perfectionists can tell the difference between love and approval. Perfectionism is so widespread in this culture that we actually have had to invent another word for love. 'Unconditional love,' we say. Yet, all love is unconditional. Anything else is just approval.
~ Rachel Naomi Remen
Most superheroes, when you look at origin stories - before they invent their costume, they just go with what's around.
~ Cheo Hodari Coker
strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.
~ Julian Barnes
Oh, God. She'd now have to invent a bawdy verse on the spot. She'd never had to improvise so much in her entire life as she had in the last five minutes. Improvise being another word for lie, of course.
~ Julie Anne Long
Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.
~ Denis Johnston
Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try.
~ Rex Stout
Don't just create art to make money. Make money so you can create more art. (Exchange any words you want for 'create art' and see if it fits).
~ Richie Norton
Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.
~ Douglas Lenat
Simplicity is not a given. It is an achievement, a human invention, a discovery, a beloved belief.
~ William H. Gass
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.
~ David Herbert Lawrence