#invented

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. ↗

— Garry Trudeau

#belief #college #college students #commencement #into

Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented. ↗

— Michael Porter

#continuity #finally #must #reinvented #strategy

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life. ↗

— Arthur Hailey

#drawn #i #invented #life #real

The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#character #compilation #even #hate #her

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time. ↗

— David Lloyd George

#invented #simply #time #waste #waste time

If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#god #hadn #invented #meant #sugar

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#anymore #been #better #cases #copies

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#company #decade #eight #graphical #had

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am. ↗

— Erica Jong

#calculated #expresses #i #i am #i think

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#carried #first #french #grammar #greeks