Quotes About Ingenuity

I am very resourceful, as any woman would be.

If you're applying for a creative position, don't be afraid to get a little creative on your resume.

To get past a rival you have to be smart.

I want to do something different in this league, even as a rookie.

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

I made all sorts of things: drawings, sculptures - I was doing origami before I even knew the word. I was constantly creating.

Genius doesn't always come in neat packages.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

I'm just like so many women - I was frustrated, I had these white pants that I had spent a lot of money on, and you get home and you think, 'What am I really supposed to wear under this?' So it was a frustrated consumer moment.

I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.

I used to put flyers on cars in parking lots, anything to get people to come to my shows. I was always having to think outside the box, and even to this day, I still try and come up with creative ways to market my shows.

En wat is nu de moraal van dit verhaal?' vroeg Minkovski. 'Dat een slimme Jood zich uit elke onaangename situatie weet te redden,' zei Zinnenoff.

You and I may look at a banana and see a banana. If forced to come up with something more inventive to do with it, perhaps we'd mash it up, or maybe we'd dip it in chocolate, and say 'What a good boy am I.

He imagined he had saved his soul rather ingeniously. Commanded by the Gospel to sell all and give to the poor, he sold his estates, rendering himself destitute, then gave the purchase money, eleven barrels of gold, to himself.

If you've got the senses and reflexes to hide between someone's saccades, why stop there? Why not do something that really works?

People keep giving me rings. But I think a small death ray might be more practical.

But his very best questions always popped out of his mind, unprepared, never having been written down in advance because they were the angle he picked up on the fly, as he heard an answer to a lesser question. Those creative questions were the art. It is what, in my mind, made his querying great.

Richard took to putting crime-scene photographs on the walls of his cell, using soap and toothpaste as glue. He'd gotten the photographs, which were part of the discovery, from Daniel Hernandez.

If you make yourself like sugar, the ants will eat you.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

She had responded to the loss of her husband, to poverty, to disease, and to family cruelty with boldness and ingenuity, by opening herself to others, especially to her children and her Church, pouring into these precious vessels her knowledge, hope, and devotion.

That's what as an artist you always try to do. To try to be a sharper mind than the average person.

When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.

I'm always in awe of improvisers that make something out of complete nothing.