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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The...

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

Quote by Charles F. Kettering about invention, use, need

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

Quote by Orson Scott about writers, experience, hope, things, life

This is a real job - as real as a doctor, a teacher, or a...

This is a real job - as real as a doctor, a teacher, or a scientist-and just as important as and very similar to healing, teaching and inventing.

Quote by Billy Joel about teaching, real estate, teachers

There is no re-inventing the wheel.

There is no re-inventing the wheel.

Quote by Sean Penn

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to...

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

Quote by Evelyn Waugh about mind, human imperfections

In fact, what exactly defines a life: submission to a predictable fate or the inventing, at any cost, of our own destiny? Where are beginning the mystification, cynicism, and betrayal, and where is ending up the dream, candor and duplicity?...

Quote by Constantin Stoiciu about life, destiny, cynicism, conscience, beginning, dream, self-control, history, death, world

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