Invent Quotes
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The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.
Seth Godin -
When temptation comes, you can invent a delete key in your mind- perhaps the words from a favorite hymn. Your mind is in charge; your body is the instrument of your mind. When some unworthy thought pushes into your mind, replace it with your delete key. Worthy music is powerful and can help you control your thoughts.
Boyd K. Packer
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I think one of the battles for fiction writers is how much to invent or exaggerate.
Ethan Canin -
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
Angela Thirkell -
You want to invent new ideas, not rules
Dan Heath -
For all these infectious diseases, the goal is to eventually get rid of them. And to do that we need to invent new tools, but nobody was doing that because there was no money to buy on behalf of the poorest, even the existing tools.
Bill Gates -
My attraction has never been to computers per se, but to the fact that they offer a highly leveraged way to invent magic.
Blaise Aguera y Arcas -
If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day.
Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
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There's a smugness that goes with being a huge company. The big fish say, 'If it's so great, why didn't we invent it?' But how'd you like to be makin' buggy whips when cars came along?
Elwood G. Norris -
Funny how people don't really see each other. Men and women. They invent each other in their minds and then they see what they invent.They don't really see each other. Now she was in love with him and she didn't even know his real name, didn't know anything real about him.
Andrew Klavan -
When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.
Susan Faludi -
Since you may never discover the truth, invent it.
Nicholas Lore -
Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.
Emil Cioran -
I'll stop wearing black when they invent a darker color.
Emmanuelle Alt
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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
Marcel Proust -
If Diet Coke did not exist it would have been neccessary to invent it.
Karl Lehenbauer -
The modern age did not so much invent new forms of migration as alter drastically the means and conditions of the old forms.
Eugene M. Kulischer -
If they invent a car that runs on stupid jokes, you could go far.
Haruki Murakami -
This language is beginning to invent another me.
Eva Hoffman -
How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.
Saul Bellow
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Why can't they invent a pill that will keep you from remembering someone you don't want to remember?
Elizabeth Jane Howard -
Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton