Inventing Quotes
Inventing Quote of the day
Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.
It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.
Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.
In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.
What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages.
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.
In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.
My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.
Being an entrepreneur means that you are sort of inventing something new. You're giving birth to a company. You're giving birth to a new product, a new service. And that's always exciting.
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.
I tell young people to reach for the stars. And I can't think of a greater high than you could possibly get than by inventing something.
I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.
The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one's feeling precisely?
Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique of selling it.
People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.
An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
You try a lot of things and you don't know what the hell you're doing. If you're actually inventing something you shouldn't know what you're doing.
The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.
We believe unbelievable progress can be made, in both inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who need them.
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?
In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.
Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.
One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.
The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.
Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.
Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality
Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.
I really wish I had invented the flip-flop. I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.
Young people, especially, are looking for religion so desperately that they are inventing new ones. They should not have to invent new ones; the old religions are pretty good.
The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of it.
Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and tradition than in inventing a unique imagery.
It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.
