Quotes About Inventive

You are far too stolid and unimaginative, Watson, to invent a tale like that.

Acting as a profession came to me by chance: in 1946, after the war, I was having lunch with my cousin, who was the Italian ambassador, and he asked, 'What are you going to do now you're out of uniform?' I said, 'I'm pretty inventive, and I can imitate people,' and he said, 'Have you thought about being an actor?'

The same traits that make them inventive, such as stubbornness and focus, can make them resistant to change when new ideas come along.

Though such depictions of Kehoe as a kind of junior Thomas Edison who eventually turned his "inventive genius" to evil purposes were wildly exaggerated, it is clear that he possessed exceptional mechanical skills. Records show that he was "at the head of his high school physics class."6

Apparently, when conditions were right, peoples of all world regions were quite capable of transforming wild plants into domesticated crops—a good point to keep in mind when next you hear someone claim that some cultures (usually their own) are more inventive or creative than others.

What are you? The pregnant MacGyver?" "Best compliment I've had in a while.

I like something with a really great storyline, characters, and concept. I like doing things that are new and cutting edge.

What I'd love to do is every now and then go, 'Oh my God, I've got this amazing idea for 'Doctor Who.'

I did pick up a few tolerably ripe and breezy expressions out in France. All through my military career there was something about me - some subtle magnetism, don't you know, and that sort of thing - that seemed to make Colonels and blighters of that sort rather inventive. I sort of inspired them, don't you know.

In the world of innovation, wacky wins; logical loses.

The iPhone will forever be associated with the inventive genius of Steve Jobs and Silicon Valley. But the roots of innovation can be traced back - from one genius to another, at least - back to the genius who put the phone in iPhone: Alexander Graham Bell.

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

Anyone who has the kind of inventive and inspired comic sensibility to be able to do that kind of work must be pretty talented.

When I was going through those very fast changes, I think it was terribly important to me that I was seen to be inventive. I think that was the characteristic of my work that I wanted people to see.

Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don't know his work pick up a book and experience this writer's zealous, crazy, inventive, funny, sexy, often delirious prose.

I'm the original.

We are a very crafty family.

I don't have to have any special skills or martial arts in my back pocket.

The variety of inventive ideas—and ideologies—that people can come up with never ceases to amaze me, especially when they're stoked by the ultimate drug, self-righteousness.

We never had a giant library or owned a lot of commercial characters the way most studios did. And since we didn't have a lot of internal resources, we had to find ways to be inventive and resourceful, which I think is a healthy way to run a good business.

If you're looking where everybody else is looking, you're looking in the wrong spot.

All my records and videos were groundbreaking.

The chemicals to which life is asked to make its adjustment are no longer merely the calcium and silica and copper and all the rest of the minerals washed out of the rocks and carried in rivers to the sea; they are the synthetic creations of man's inventive mind, brewed in his laboratories, and having no counterparts in nature.

I wish I was as annotative as Elon Musk.