I do not see the world at all; I invent it.
I think the first thing I thought when I got out to L. A. was just: Oh, if I want to act, I have to find a different way to go about it because the parts for girls are as dispiriting as the banking jobs. You have to really be willing to invent, I guess, a different path for yourself.
Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success - only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, prosperous, progressive and free.
It seems to me that it's actually harder to invent excuses than it is to get a sale.
The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it. '
More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.
The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.
You have to invent the future you want.
It's perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It's something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and the spiritual side of my life come from a sense of connection to the humankind and nature on this planet and in the universe. I am in overwhelming awe of it all: It is so fantastic, so complex, so beyond comprehension. What does it all mean -- if it has any meaning at all? But how can it all exist if it doesn't have some kind of meaning? I think anyone who suggests that they have the answer is motivated by the need to invent answers, because we have no such answers.
To punish the individual for the sins of the system makes no sense. We're responsible for changing it, yes. But we can't actually invent another universe, so we have to start where we are.
The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP.
Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels because I can't do plots. '' But in the six years of writing that novel, I actually learned to write, to invent things.
We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Remember. Or, failing that, invent.
Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing.
At least I didn't invent a dead girlfriend
How can there be methods and systems to arrive at something that is living? To that which is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way, a definite path, but not to that which is living. Do not reduce reality to a static thing and then invent methods to reach it. . . . Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. It has no resting place, no form, no organized institution, no philosophy. When you see that, you will understand that this living thing is also what you are. You cannot express and be alive through static, put-together form, through stylized movement.
It is entirely up to us to invent our own lives.
Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.