I Quotes
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“Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.”
“Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Thomas Edison I don't design clothes, I design dreams.”
“Invention is a blended cocktail. Innovation is selling the recipe.”
“Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.”
“Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.”
Source: Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments
“Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.”
Source: The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper
“Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold, a nimble, a restless mind: a thousand difficulties must be contemn'd with which a mean heart would be broken: many attempts must be made to no purpose: much Treasure must sometimes be scatter'd without any return: much violence, and vigour of thoughts must attend it: some irregularities, and excesses must be granted it, that would hardly be pardon'd by the severe Rules of Prudence.”
Source: The History of the Royal Society of London: For the Improving of Natural Knowledge
“Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.”
“Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.”
“Invention is essentially different from reverie; if some fail to recognize the difference that is because they have not themselves experienced both. Anyone who has will understand me. In my day-dreams I was training myself to be a fool; in mapping and chronicling Animal-Land I was training myself to be a novelist.”
Source: Surprised by Joy, Reflections on the Psalms, The Four Loves, and The Business of Heaven
“Invention is not always good. Sometimes our inventions are too powerful for us to control.”
Source: The Legacy
“Invention is not so much the result of labor as of judgment.”
“Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .”
“Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.”
“Invention is the mother of necessities.”
Source: Culture Is Our Business
“Invention is the mother of necessity.”
Source: Absentee Ownership: Business Enterprise in Recent Times : the Case of America
“Invention is the natural outcome of creative thinking.”
“Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough.”
“Invention is the root of innovation. Innovation is the major force for change in the future.”
“Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.”
“Invention is totally independent of the will.”
Source: Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk
“Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go.”
“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.”
Source: Frankenstein
“Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.”
Source: Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons
“Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.”
“Invention requires an excited mind; execution, a calm one.”
“Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.”
“Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.”
Source: Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy
“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos; the materials must in the first place be afforded; it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.”
Source: Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus
“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.”
Source: Frankenstein
“Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple”
“Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.”
Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense.”
“Inventions are Personal But An Idea is Always Universal.”
“Inventions become perfect by slow improvement, and each step is itself an invention.”
“Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.”
“Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.”
“Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. In the absence of new developments, old ones may seem very impressive for quite a long while.”
Source: The affluent society
“Inventions were not like your children. Your children were all your flaws shown to you in a way that made you love them: your worst made good. Inventions were your best attempt at beautiful thought. They were objective; they worked or they did not. They had purpose, whether they achieved it or not. They were yours always, in that they did not leave you, or turn away.”
Source: Light from Other Stars
“Inventions with noble aims are always in harmony with nature and the universe's laws.”
“Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise”
Source: Aims of Education
“Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.”
“Inventiveness can set you off any trauma, suffering or a deep agony, so keep tailing her hand.”
“inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.”
“Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition
“Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.”
“Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.”
“Inventors don't have time for married life.”
“Inventors make something out of anything, but God makes something out of nothing. Elohim needs no raw materials.”
“Inventory discipline across the brands coupled with an outstanding holiday performance at Victoria's Secret led to a 36 percent increase in fourth-quarter earnings per share at Limited Inc.”