Top 375 Inventing Quotes & Sayings

Changing and inventing new things is great. That's what we like to do.

If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

Wherever you may find the inventor, you may give him wealth or you may take from him all that he has; and he will go on inventing. He can no more help inventing that he can help thinking or breathing.

Invent. I love inventing, that's my first passion.

Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.

A man should keep inventing and re-inventing himself.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

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.

I'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict.

I like inventing things when I write rather than autobiography.

I love finding - or inventing - ways to categorize people.

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

I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something.

We're always inventing, even if we're making someone who's fairly close to ourselves.

The best designers are French - we all know that. That's a fact, I'm not inventing anything.

What if I never stop inventing?

Smart phones are re-inventing the connections between companies and their customers.

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.

In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

While the Tamils were inventing cabs and leather jackets, we Greeks were busy inventing philosophy. But I guess everybody needs cabs and leather jackets.

You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.

I enjoy inventing things out of fun. After all, life is a game, not a career.

You write a novel by inventing a world and inventing the rules that govern that world. Then you break the rules when you want to.

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.

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.

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

I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.

There is no re-inventing the wheel.

Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways of doing new things that cost $300,000 and take people in their 70s and, on average, give them an extra, say, two or three years of life. And then you have to say, given finite resources, should we fire two or three teachers to do this operation?

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

I criticize the media for inventing stories.

Man keeps inventing things all the time.

In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.

I'm certainly not inventing anything new with drag.

For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it?

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

I thought I wanted to be an inventor but then discovered you couldn't study inventing!

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.

But, said Alice, the the world has absolutely no sens, who's stopping us from inventing one?

For me, nobody's re-inventing football. We just have to do it better than everybody else.

Everytime we teach a child something, we prevent him from inventing it himself.

I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing is problem-solving.

Some libertarians succeed by re-inventing the wheel. Most libertarians fail by re-inventing the flat tire.

When we have this description, of what a sketch is, itsattributes, we can then start inventing new things thatshare those attributes, and therefore improve our currenttechnics by inventing new and better tools that help ussketch.

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.

Implementing best practice is copying yesterday; innovation is inventing tomorrow.

To me, to spend all the time and energy and face all those creative challenges that you would spend for a two hour movie, you're inventing a world, you're inventing characters. If they're interesting enough, they should be compelling enough to go for five more episodes. How incredibly frustrating would it be to just do one movie?

To a philosopher like Nietzsche, the Jew is culpable not for rejecting Christianity but for inventing it.

When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.

We inhabit a universe that is still inventing itself

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors.

And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.

Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.

Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions.

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