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Quotes About Invent

Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.
~ David Mamet
If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
How do you invent a religion?" Evie asked. Will looked over the top of his spectacles. "You say, 'God told me the following,' and then wait for people to sign up.
~ Libba Bray
People invent gods to explain their suffering.
~ Mason Cooley
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.
~ Voltaire
A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Where there is no hope, we must invent it.
~ Albert Camus
Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
~ Albert Camus
Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.
~ Glen Hansard
Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.
~ Alan Kay
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
~ Walter Lippmann
Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
~ Albert Camus
Everybody at the company has the freedom - and really, the expectation - to critically look at how it can be better and then invent ways to make it better.
~ Andy Jassy
The writer, the poet, the novelist, are all creators. This does not mean that they invent language; it means that they use language to create beauty, ideas, images. This is why we cannot do without them.
~ J. M. G. Le Clezio
The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.
~ Nancy Duarte
In Judaism or Christianity and so forth, you invent rules that don't exist anywhere except in your imagination. You spend your life trying to gain points and to avoid all kinds of things that detract from your points. And if by the time you die you gather enough points, then you pass on to the next level, in Heaven.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.
~ Edward Burtynsky
Create. Don't Compete.
~ Renée Mauborgne
What lies inside a cage of flames? The truth, the heart, but burned up before you can see it. Only traces remain in the ashes, a pattern you guess at or invent, an intangible thing that might leave a mark, but could just as easily blow away.
~ Rene Steinke
The bigger lesson is that once you understand a behavioral problem, you can sometimes invent a behavioral solution to it. Mental
~ Richard H. Thaler
And if Poe were alive, he would not have to invent horror; horror would invent him.
~ Richard Wright
It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give.
~ William Saroyan