invention

Clocks were invented to warn us. Tick (time is passing). Tock (time has passed).

You were created, fashioned and designed in a special form to leave in the world something that did not exist before you were born!

Desperation is the father of invention.

The more you think, the less you imagine. The less you imagine, the less you create.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

Ideas are the seeds of invention and actions are the fertilizers.

Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate.

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

... He who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new... partly from the incredulity of mankind, who will never admit the merit of anything new, until they have seen it proved by the event.

If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people__ only reason for not abandoning e-books.

Just as little as a reader today reads all of the individual words (let alone syllables) on a page__ather he picks about five words at random out of twenty and "guesses" at the meaning that probably belongs to these five words__ust as little do we see a tree exactly and completely with reference to leaves, twigs, color, and form; it is so very much easier for us to simply improvise some approximation of a tree. Even in the midst of the strangest experiences we will still do the same: we make up the major part of the experience and can scarcely be forced not to contemplate some event as its "inventors." All this means: basically and from time immemorial we are__ccustomed to lying. Or to put it more virtuously and hypocritically, in short, more pleasantly: one is much more of an artist than one knows.

When Design become Useless it becomes Art. Yesterday's Artisans are today's Artists.

Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man__ face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building__nd then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It__ the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing.

It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.

Bridges take people across rivers. Leaders take people across ignorance. With a leader, the destination of a journey is sure.

Don__ always complain the way isn__ there. If you can__ find the way, create it.

Be the initiator of things you wish to see, but can__ see. Be the originator of things you wish you feel but can__ feel.

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.