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Inventive Quotes

Ray Dolby quote: "Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people..."
Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent. Ray Dolby
David Mamet quote: "Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of..."
Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school. David Mamet
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place be afforded: it can give form to dark shapeless substances but cannot bring into being the substance itself. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked. William James
Gene Wilder quote: "Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6%..."
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple Gene Wilder
Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs. Nikola Tesla
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no..."
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development. Ursula K. Le Guin
Jonathan Swift quote: "Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age."
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. Jonathan Swift
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. Henri Poincare
Thorstein Veblen quote: "Invention is the mother of necessity."
Invention is the mother of necessity. Thorstein Veblen
William Congreve quote: "Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair..."
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. William Congreve
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in..."
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Charles Kettering quote: "Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more..."
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need. Charles Kettering
Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing. Joshua Reynolds
We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce, mind you. And we invented infidelity, too, as well as romantic misery. In fact we invented the whole sloppy mess of love and intimacy and aversion and euphoria and failure. But most importantly of all, most subversively of all, most stubbornly of all, we invented privacy. Elizabeth Gilbert

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