Gloria Steinem Quotes

Sometimes people invent things because they want to stay alive or feed their children or conquer the village next door. But just as often, new ideas come into the world simply because they're fun. And here's the really strange thing: many of those playful but seemingly frivolous inventions ended up sparking momentous transformations in science, in politics and society.

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

Hope, even more than necessity, is the mother of invention.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Necessity, n. The mother of invention. Profit is the father.

Belief in great results is the driving force, the power behind all great books, plays, scientific discoveries.

If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then reverses.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.

Invention is the mother of necessities.

Nothing great or new can be done without enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the fly-wheel which carries your saw through the knots in the log.

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.