Invent Quotes

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.

It is entirely up to us to invent our own lives.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.

I wanted to do a naval film and I flirted with different ideas, most of which ended up being too intense. So when the idea of 'Battleship' was first suggested, I was instantly drawn to the challenge - could I invent a movie around the idea of five ships fighting five ships?

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.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.

Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.

There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

We can invent only with memory.

They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake up and they'd be gone.

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.

We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought.

There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.

What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.