Quotes of Inventive - somelinesforyou

“ I would be delighted to take credit for it. It's a good plan. It's a creative and an innovative plan, and it's going to work,... it's a little early for postmortems. ”

- Donald Rumsfeld

“ You're going to be more creative, more innovative, and have a lot more ability to stumble into a big breakthrough. ”

- Burt Rutan

“ I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter. ”

- Dawn French

“ Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ Just tasking a team to 'be creative' won't get you to be innovative. It's having a corporate climate that gives people the space to experiment and take risks. Only then can you truly sustain it. ”

- Steve Brown

“ I've always been creative, I think. ”

- Emily Watson

“ Most of my cliches aren't original. ”

- Chuck Knox

“ The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman. ”

- David M. Ogilvy

“ There's no such thing as life without bloodshed. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom… ”

- Cormac McCarthy

“ The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind. ”

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

“ Don't think of Diana Vreeland's memoir as a book; it's more like a lunch. A bit of souffle, a glass of champagne, some green grapes - light, bubbly and slightly tart - all served up by an egocentric but inventive hostess. ”

- Cathleen McGuigan

“ In Yellow Submarine, we used chains that were there and all sorts of bowls and things. And of course, we used bowls of water too. And bottles with straws, blowing them into the water, to get the effect of submarines surfacing, that kind of thing. It was nice to do because it, we were all being very inventive… ”

- George Martin

“ I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers! How teachers can take a child's inventiveness and say yes, yes, in that pontifical way of theirs, and smother everything! ”

- John Hurt
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