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Tag Name "Invention" (794)

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Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.
Francis Bacon
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Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
Walt Disney
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Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!
Walt Disney
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Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally even when it is composing its thoughts in oral form. More than any other single invention writing has transformed human consciousness.
Walter J. Ong
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Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
Walter Jon Williams
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We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
Walter Murch
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Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving…conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity.
John Dewey
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Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.
Amar Bose
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If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.
Kathy Lette
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Be authentic to your dreams. Be authentic to your own idea about yourself. Grind away at your own minds and bodies until you become your own invention. Be Mad Scientists.
Warren Ellis
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But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.
Philip Sidney
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All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be.
Allen Lacy
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Hollywood is a land of self-invention.
Brian Koppelman
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In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
Aristotle
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Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.
Whitney M. Young
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You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.
Larry Page
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The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
Alfred North Whitehead
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In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
Walter Scott
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We forget to thank the scientists that began these musical inventions and systems. The guy that invented the phonograph and gramophone - Thomas Edison!
will.i.am
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It's ironic that this amazing invention of the Internet has made information gathering easier available than ever, but that this platform also helps spread misinformation.
will.i.am
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It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention it is only the application of them that is human.
Thomas Paine
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