Quotessence
Home / Topics / Inventing Quotes

Inventing Quotes

Browse 311 quotes about Inventing.

Related topics

PeopleInventionIfsWayThinkingInventorKnowsWritingInventing ThingsInventions And InventorsWantHumansIdeasLongMenWorldNeedsStoriesScienceCharacterDoeEnoughArtBelieveFactsFirstsChildrenCreatingHappensI CanLittlesShouldYoungDreamGivingMadeMindPleasureTechnologyBookDifferentFeelsFindingsFormGamesInnovationNovelRealRealityRoomsTermTwoUseWheelsYears

Inventing Quotes

“No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius--a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.”

PeopleIfsWayFirstsLongPowerfulGraceGeniusGood ThingsFollowingCleverThings To DoConventionsConventionalLong WayInventingImposingConventionality
Book:Modes and Morals
Create image

“The analytical writer observes the reader as he is; accordingly, he makes his calculation, sets his machine to make the appropriate effect on him. The synthetic writer constructs and creates his own reader; he does not imagine him as resting and dead, but lively and advancing toward him. He makes that which he had invented gradually take shape before the reader's eyes, or he tempts him to do the inventing for himself. He does not want to make a particular effect on him, but rather enters into a solemn relationship of innermost symphilosophy or sympoetry.”

WantDoeEyeLiteratureImagineEffectsParticularReaderShapesMachinesAppropriateConstructsSolemnCalculationsLivelyInventingAdvancingSynthetic
Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Create image

“People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered sex offender and I'd just been released from prison and was being forced to do community-service work. I was a murderer, an arsonist - all these horrific things had been projected on me because no one knew what to make of this white guy who showed up and made toast at 5 o'clock every morning.”

PeopleKnowsMadeStoriesGuySexCommunityWhiteMorningPrisonClockEvery MorningMurdererInventingToastsHorrificOffendersCommunity ServiceWhite GuysSex OffendersArsonistsInventing Stories
Author:Chuck Palahniuk
Create image

“Nothing could be more stupid than for the communications commission to give to people who handle the means of broadcasting the inventing of what to broadcast, and then, disturbed at the poor quality, to worry about censorship.”

PeopleGivingMeanPoorQualityWorryStupidCommunicationHandleCensorshipDisturbedInventingBroadcastingPoor Quality
Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
Create image

“Creativity itself is a joyous unlatching. The act of creative imagining, inventing, saying differently, crafting a metaphor or image, then crafting another metaphor or image when you go further or when you revise - all these take whatever you think "is" and make clear that other possibilities exist as well. The sense of possibility, the amplitude and freedom that sense of malleability brings - for me, that cannot help but be joyous.”

ThinkingWellsHelpingCreativityCreativeClearPossibilityMetaphorJoyousInventing
Author:Jane Hirshfield
Create image

“You have to be closer to religious origins -- the generation of the 20's was truly secular in that it still knew its theology and its varieties of religious experience. We are post-secular, inventing new faiths, without any sense of organizing truths. The truths we accept are so multiple that honesty becomes little more than a strategy by which you manage your tendencies toward duplicity.”

LittlesStillsReligiousAcceptingGenerationsHonestyStrategyTheologyTendenciesManageVarietyPostsMultipleSecularInventingReligious ExperienceDuplicity
Author:Ann Douglas
Create image

“We mustn't be afraid of inventing anything...Everething there is in us exists in nature. After all, we're part of nature. If it resembles nature, that's fine. If it doesn't, what of it? When man wanted to invent something as useful as the human foot, he invented the wheel, which he used to transport himself and his burdens. The fact that the wheel doesn't have the slightest resemblance to the human foot is hardly a criticism of it.”

IfsMenHumansFactsWantedUsedFeetFineCriticismBurdenWheelsInventingTransportResemblance
Author:Francoise Gilot
Create image

“To paraphrase president Kennedy's inaugural, the torch has been passed to a new generation of cartoonists and they are doing really interesting stuff, taking the old cliches and breathing new life into them and inventing new ones. This doesn't mean the previous generation of which I'm a charter member isn't doing good stuff but this new material is invigorating everyone.”

MeanHas BeensStuffPresidentInterestingGenerationsMaterialsMembersBreathingNew LifeClicheDoing GoodReally InterestingInventingTorchesNew GenerationCartoonistCharterInauguralInvigoratingParaphrasePrevious GenerationsPresident KennedyInteresting Stuff
Author:Robert Mankoff
Create image

“Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug. The attraction of this way of writing is that it is easy.”

WayWritingLongDoeTogetherOrderEasyResultsModernWorstSakeAttractionSheerInventingHumbug
Book:A Collection of Essays
Create image

“Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as a way of surviving and inventing someone to whom this doesn't happen. And so therefore, they invent within themselves different personalities who have life histories of their own. Many people invent an opposite gender personality as well.”

PeopleWayWellsChildrenLongHas BeensDifferentHappensAbleTermPersonalityOppositesGenderLong TermSurvivingInventingVery Sad
Author:Gloria Steinem
Create image

“I was watching one of those animal shows on the Discovery Channel. There was a guy inventing a shark bite suit. And there's only one way to test it. All right Jimmy, you got that shark suit on, it looks good... They want you to jump into this pool of sharks, and you tell us if it hurts when they bite you. Well, all right, but hold my sign. I don't wanna lose it.”

IfsWayWantWellsLooksShowsGuyLosesHurtAnimalDiscoveryTestsSuitsOne WayBitesPoolIt HurtsJimmySharksInventing
Author:Bill Engvall
Create image

“Marketers keep inventing desires, necessities for you and for me. I need this. I need that. I need. I need. It's the need of a smoking fit. If you don't smoke that cigarette now, you'll die - when in reality you die because you succumb to the rage and rattle of the needy greed that keeps you busy needing more and more things. Is this the American Dream - the greedy need?”

IfsNeedsDreamRealityDesireDiesFitGreedBusyRageSmokeSmokingAmerican DreamCigaretteGreedyInventingNeedyMarketers
Author:Giannina Braschi
Create image

“This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function. Such governments are illuminated by the example that the existence of freedom need not give cause for the least concern regarding public order and harmony in the commonwealth. If only they refrain from inventing artifices to keep themselves in it, men will gradually raise themselves from barbarism.”

IfsMenNeedsGivingGovernmentSpiritOrderCausesExistenceStruggleExampleConcernFunctionHarmonyRaisesObstaclesExpandingInventingRefrainBarbarismCommonwealthArtifice
Book:Perpetual Peace and Other Essays: on Politics, History, and Morals
Create image

“A lot of times I say to myself, "I wished I could be worthy of all the compliments that people give me sometimes." I'm not inventing anything that's going to stop cancer or muscular dystrophy or anything, but I like to feel that my time and talent is always there for the people that need it. When someone do say something negative, most times I think about it, but it don't bother me that much.”

PeopleThinkingNeedsGivingFeelsSometimesTalentNegativeGive MeCancerWorthyBotherMy TimeComplimentInventingMuscular Dystrophy
Author:B. B. King
Create image

“The action of the child inventing a new game with his playmates; Einstein formulating a theory of relativity; the housewife devising a new sauce for the meat, a young author writing his first novel; all of these are in terms of definition, Creative, and there is no attempt to set them in some order of more or less Creative.”

WritingFirstsChildrenActionYoungOrderGamesTermNovelCreativeTheoryDefinitionsMeatInventingRelativitySauceHousewifeTheories Of RelativityDevising
Book:On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy
Create image