Quotes About Invention

The pain in the heart has alone the greatest power to activate the main creative part of the brain that could train all other senses of the body to do invention or innovation of something par excellence.

Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.

This might sound a little nutty, but to write fiction is to live in an invented world with a set of imaginary friends.

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off

Eureka! [I have found it!]

Wisdom The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.… Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? —T. S. ELIOT

The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.… Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? —T. S. ELIOT

I wondered at all the ways abuse invents us

But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house that was done many thousands of years ago.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented

Probably the biggest influence on me, strange though it may sound, was the 70s, a decade of invention. Growing up then had a huge impact on me. People wanted to experiment and were hungry for change. I was influenced by the literature and art of the time; listening to John Peel and Annie Nightingale and watching 'Monty Python.'

Don't be afraid to make things up. Never fear being exposed as a fraud. Experts make things up all the time. They're qualified to.

It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.

Every quarter, we give an award for a breakthrough idea even if it doesn't make it to market.

As drag queens, you constantly have to be coming up with, 'What's the thing no one's ever seen before?'

In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart.

Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

I'd like something that peels potatoes really quickly - that would be wonderful.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

It's difficult to do something radically new, unless you are at the heart of a company.

In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899.

For as long as I can remember, I was always creating random characters.

If you look back as far as the first explorers, they all took with them the latest gadget.

As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots. The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with.