#invent

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#constant #constant need #doing #far #feel

America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#america #because #country #everybody #information

The poet doesn't invent. He listens. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#invent #listens #poet

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares? ↗

— Joel Coen

#amount #amusing #because #behave #cares

We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new. ↗

— George Combe

#agent #alter #aspects #cases #evidence

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#build #down #gadgets #i #invent

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#ever #invented #media #most #most powerful

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#constitutes #continue #find #greatest #greatest pleasure

It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#nature #reinvent #smarter #than #wheels

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#circumstances #free #free will #great #i