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Quotes About Ingenious

It's an ingenious tactic. What the therapist is trying to demonstrate, in a subtle way, is that the client is capable of solving her own problem.
~ Chip Heath
We should make an effort to praise ingenious solutions to customers' problems.
~ Chip Heath
Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.
~ Henry W. Kendall
I'm beginning to think you're the sort of person who does a great deal with very little. He meant a liar.
~ Jasper Fforde
If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Clever is as clever does.
~ Tony DiTerlizzi
We are a very crafty family.
~ Tori Spelling
The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
~ Gottfried Leibniz
Twas a clever quibble. Here, a garment for it.
~ William Shakespeare
A human being is an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
~ Christopher Morley
A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
~ Christopher Morley
I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.
~ Clyde Tombaugh
Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,--she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.
~ Honore de Balzac
Solamente las mujeres que confían plenamente en sí mismas, las arrogantes, las extrovertidas, las orgullosas, las poseedoras de mentes rigurosas, son capaces de mantener una conversación intensa, audaz, ingeniosa.
~ Valerie Solanas
The expression on J.D.'s face is ingenious, already makes you feel deprived not being there with them. We're late, D.L. says, returning and immediately clinging to Mark in a way you can't tell if he minds.
~ David Foster Wallace
I love how Vietnamese cuisine always tastes like flowers, and how they had the ingenious idea of pairing that floral flavor with seafood: such a combination shouldn't work as well as it does.
~ Hanya Yanagihara
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Christmas is a clandestinely ingenious script that outlines a plan to reclaim mankind through a strategy unimagined and unimaginable. This strategy involved God writing His own death into the script.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
It was the greatest, most intricate, most ingenious and most costly rescue mission in all of human history.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
~ J. C. F. von Schiller
Paul Cummins is a genius. He's a true visionary.
~ Laurie David
Facts are often faint and flickering. They are the achievements of subtle investigations that must painstakingly stabilize evanescent effects or ingeniously combine several strands of evidence into a strong, weight-bearing cord. Above all, as their etymology suggests, [...] the most interesting and useful facts are not given but made, artifacts in the best sense of the word.
~ Unknown
It is impossible to design anything that is foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
~ Groucho Marx
watched the coffee bubble up through the center tube and perforated basket into the small pale globe. A marvelous and sad invention, so roundabout, ingenious, human. It was like a philosophical argument rendered in terms of the things of the world—water, metal, brown beans. I had never looked at coffee before.
~ Don DeLillo