A Quote by Philip Glass

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.

Philip Glass

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Philip Glass
American - Composer
Born: January 31, 1937

As a student, I had a hobby of inventing new ideas for products. For me, thinking of new businesses is like inventing new products.

Masayoshi Son

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Bill Buxton

I think there's a lot of people who right now are worried that people are going down frivolous paths, like inventing new social networks or new games, instead of inventing the cures for cancer or fundamental technologies that will change the world.

Charles Duhigg

Google is a company whose very existence depends on innovation - on inventing things that are new and didn't exist before - and on refining existing ideas and technologies to allow consumers to do things they couldn't do before.

Daniel Levitin

I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently.

Shigeru Ban

The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one's feeling precisely?

Robert Motherwell

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

Al Gore

The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.

C. S. Lewis

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.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The future does not really lie in discovering new fragrant raw materials.... In order to endure, haute perfumery is therefore condemned to inventing new olfactory promises...to finding a new form of expression.

Jean-Claude Ellena

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Bill Gates

I think new directors come with new perceptions, energy, and passion to win. They don't have to worry about an already existing image or budget that they have to recover.

R. Madhavan

The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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.