Most of my favourite guitarists are self-taught, because in a way there's less of a reverence for the instrument itself, so you end up finding and inventing however you want to play it.
Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
Invent. I love inventing, that's my first passion.
I really wish I had invented the flip-flop. I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.
I'm very jealous of an era where people were inventing something so beautiful as the Concorde and thinking that's the next step. I'm jealous of an era when people thought, "Let's finally go to the Moon. "
Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.
You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which you walk, one room into another. Every room gives its word for you to speak, every passage its song for you to sing.
How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it?
I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you know? It’s weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that’s the joy. It’s like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they’re your kids.
On a more technical level, a story takes a lot of words. And to generate words and phrases and images and so on, that will compel the reader to continue reading - that stand a chance of really grabbing a reader - the writer has to work out of a place of, let's say, familiarity and affection. The matrix of the story has to be made out of stuff the writer really knows about and likes. The writer can't be stretching and (purely) inventing all the time. Well, I can't, anyway.
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
Either this guy really liked me, or I was inventing things in my head because I wanted him to like me. I was much too inexperienced to guess which.
The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.
Jerry Goldsmith is the #1 composer working now. He's open to new ideas and always inventing.
Everything that you are taking advantage of, inventing and using, is still a generation or two behind when it comes to the U. S. government.
As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.
We inhabit a universe that is still inventing itself
Man keeps inventing things all the time.
What if I never stop inventing?
You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.