Inventing Quotes

“Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“But you can't invent things like time,' Violet said. 'You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window waster. But you can't invent more time.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“To those who hadn't been around Violet long, nothing would have seemed unusual, but those who knew her well knew that when she tied her hair up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes, it meant that the gears and levers of her inventing brain were whirring at top speed.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

“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.”
― Alexander Graham Bell

“Your need to feel significant will never be met, until you can conquer your fear and manage your focus.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man’s ability to invent which has made human society what it is. The mental processes of inventions are still mysterious. They are rational but not logical, that is to say, not deductive.”
― Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future

“Implementing best practice is copying yesterday, innovation is inventing tomorrow.”
― Paul Sloane

“Every idea is in the soul of its owner. No other power can shift it to another soul, that is why we have the telephone, aircraft, etc, each having its unique inventor.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze.”
― Ryan Lilly

“She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things, and telling them to herself”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A little princess

“To tell ourselves that we can’t change the story of our lives is to errantly assume that we are nothing more than the characters in it verses being the authors of it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I have learned that creation is not just about inventing a lot of new stuff. The natural creation is to invent a lot of quality stuff.”
― Alan Maiccon

“Deception is a device to control oneself or others by twisting or inventing the truth into an easy acceptable form purely in order to manipulate.”
― Steven Redhead, Life's Impressions

“All sorts of things can happen when you’re open to new ideas and playing around with things.”
― Stephanie Kwolek, Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World

“The whole idea of: "Well, surely if you're going to make progress on this set of [science] puzzles, you will want to know everything everyone has done on the way there."

[But] by the time you learn everything everyone has done on the way there you will have spent a huge amount of time and made no progress. And even worse, you will be entrained. You will be entrained in the thought process that got them stuck in the first place.

And this all very counter-intuitive:
Do you want to know everything that is known before you try to add anything?
The answer is: You probably don't.
You'll ask better questions [if you don't.]
You'll ask some bad ones [too].
You'll ask some questions that other people have figured their way past, but you'll ask some good ones that nobody's asked yet and that's where the breakthroughs live.”
― Bret Weinstein

“[Dream that lead to real-life invention]

A man was in a jungle surrounded by saages. They were coming menacingly close to him, their spears rising, then descending. Each spear had a hole in the tip. When he awoke he saw this dream as the answer to a problem that had him stymied: how to design a sewing machine. He could make the needle rise and descend, but not sew - until his dream told him to put the hole at the tip. The man was Elias Howe, who invented the first practical sewing machine.”
― José Silva, The Silva Mind Control Method