Inventing Quotes
The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.
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.
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.
I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, inventing. The day I cease to learn, I must stop.
The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.
It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.
There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves.
I'm working on inventing an aerosol spray that repels papparazi. I haven't perfected it but when I do I will make millions.
People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.
Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of worn-down adults.
We focus on building innovation and inventing technology futures and we figure that it will take care of the rest. So far, it's done wonders.
Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.
I am often thanked by people for inventing the term traditionally built. The people who give me thanks for this are often traditionally built themselves.
We're always inventing, even if we're making someone who's fairly close to ourselves.
We're actually making stuff in America now. We're exporting stuff. We're inventing things.
Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people.
Adam is one of my favourite writers, period. He has such a unique voice and he's somebody who I admire so much for putting the effort into inventing his own language and furthering it.
With all the technology we're inventing and what they're coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It's scary, but in the same sense it's also very exciting.
Most of my favourite guitarists are self-taught, because in a way there's less of a reverence for the instrument itself, so you end up finding and inventing however you want to play it.
The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.
Either this guy really liked me, or I was inventing things in my head because I wanted him to like me. I was much too inexperienced to guess which.
I'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict.
Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently promoting what’s not working.
The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors.
Now, that can be a traditional form or it can be something you're inventing. It can be the development of a metaphor, the working through of a metaphor.
As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.
Jerry Goldsmith is the #1 composer working now. He's open to new ideas and always inventing.
Everything that you are taking advantage of, inventing and using, is still a generation or two behind when it comes to the U.S. government.
I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell.
Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.
America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered by a thousand cicumstances.
I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.
The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and wrong.
'Do you know,' he asked in a delicious accent, 'what Dom Pérignon said after inventing champagne?' 'No?' I said. 'He called out to his fellow monks, 'Come quickly: I am tasting the stars!'
When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it - rather, I am remembering a story that has already happened.
I said, 'I need to know how he died.' He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?' So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing.
I don't know whether I am different from other people. Perhaps I am. Perhaps no one has a personality, and people are inventing themselves in the context in which they find themselves.
