Antonio Porchia Quotes

Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

I was always pretty good at designing things.

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.

Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

Our young people - their capacities to think, understand, investigate, and innovate - are America's future.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

Some people are way less creative than you wish they were.

In my mind, creativity is consciousness.

Ultimately, there is no definition for smartness. It's just the ability to do what you want to do really well.

There are people that are doing things that I would've never even thought possible.

You have to draw on a fair amount of experience in order to be able to put ideas together.

To understand is to invent.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.

What I can't create I don't understand

Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

All children have creative power.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.