Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.

It's easy to say, 'I'm going to build something that already exists,' but it's difficult to clearly and succinctly describe something new.

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.

Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness.

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.

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker.

I've got nothing very original to say myself.

Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

I've always been a bit of an inventor, just making up weird things people haven't thought of before. I can't tell you exactly what, though, because they might actually happen one day!

I was never interested in 'making up' games when I was little. I wanted to create something real.

It's hard to invent a new thing, and it's just as hard to invent another new thing.

In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.

I'm not the sort of fellow who does the same thing all the time. I began using a lot of science fiction apparatus. I came out with the atom bomb two years before it was actually used because I read in the paper that a fellow named Nicola Tesla was working on the atom bomb.

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination!

The greatest gift that you were ever given was the gift of your imagination.

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.

The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once I do something, I want to do something else.

Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade.

My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.

Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.