Quotes About Inventiveness

it was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that.

You cannot make chicken salad out of Chicken shit.

My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability to lie with a straight face as a child.

'Basic Black with Pearls', upon its publication in 1980, was greeted with a mix of praise and misunderstanding. Critics sensed its daring and applauded its formal inventiveness, but those qualities also kept people at bay.

One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

There's a certain amount of screwball and genius in 'Willy Wonka.'

To me, ideas are like annoying salespeople that only go away once I've built them.

There is something reassuring about British-made products and their inventiveness and ingenuity, their creative spirit and eccentricity and their British wit and charm.

I think Uber is just very different; there's no model to copy. It may be the reason why we've been a lightning rod in so many ways, because we don't do anything conventional... And then I think also, as an entrepreneur, I'm a bit of a lone wolf.

I want to stay ahead and to stay ahead you always have to be thinking out of the box.

A great idea solves multiple problems at the same time.

The person who is capable of producing a large number of ideas per unit of time, other things being equal, has a greater chance of having significant ideas.

perfectionism will ruin your writing, blocking inventiveness and playfulness and life force

You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander. We build this place with the sand of memories; these castles are our memories and inventiveness made tangible.

the food shortages required inventiveness...Daphne showed me the difference it made if she placed plums in a green bowl or in a yellow bowl before she set them on the table.

brainstorming

Very impressive. Where did you learn that?" Made it up just now.

And then I had my greatest stroke of genius since that ham sandwich with pickles that time.

I think Google's a brilliant company, filled with brilliant people who have done brilliant things.

Because competence-building represents more cumulative learning than great leaps of inventiveness, it is difficult to "time compress" competence-building.

The time horizon may be too long for sole reliance on market solutions - but perhaps the inventiveness of the financial services industry will prove me wrong that point!

necessity is the mother of invention, then

He said when you use your brain, no-one comes near you for ingenuity

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.