Quotes About Ingenuity

Yes, I think you're the first person to think of this.

Look at these buttons," one soldier said, fingering his gray wool jacket. "I soaked them overnight in a saucer filled with urine." Chemicals in the urine oxidized the brass, giving it the patina of buttons from the 1860s. "My wife woke up this morning, sniffed the air and said, 'Tim, you've been peeing on your buttons again.

He'd pull a door off its hinges rather than work out how to turn a key.

We are different from our animal ancestors in that we are not content to merely survive, but have been incredibly busy making up new itches that we have to scratch, creating new desires we've never had before. This discontent is the trigger for our ingenuity and growth.

the proper response to a lousy idea is not to stop thinking. It is to come up with a better idea.

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water." —W. C. FIELDS

I was quick to learn the tricks of the trade, the most important being: when you run into an unsolvable problem, use grease liberally; it opens all doors.

You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

Cookie didn't dare light a fire, so we have cold food this evening. (Morgan) Yum. Hard-boiled wood, my favorite. (Serenity)

When devastating things happen, creativity and ingenuity often thrive.

La scienza della realtà e della necessità, delle cause e delli effetti, dell'ingegni di puntamento, di percussione e di prótasi, quella sola può leggere dal suo quaderno che in sul capo all'Autore cadrà il pomo dall'albero, piantato nel prato, e disgregatasi invece dalle torri erme dell'alpe cadrà la pietra, cercando il profondo; che il giusto colpo springherà tremendo sopra al bersaglio; e che l'erba, che sarà cresciuta, la mangerà il cavallo, che campato sarà.

IDEAS ARE THE CURRENCY OF the twenty-first century. Some

She is dressed in the nicest of her purloined finery – an ivory satin gown, which she has painstakingly taken in at the seams, its original owner having had a tad more hip, and a tad less hooray than its current one.

Pioneer children were always having mishaps, but they were expected to know how to use their heads in emergencies.

As Little Crow had said, 'When men are hungry, they help themselves.

Not many girls would have used their wits the way you did," the officer observed.

What is the use of having an imagination if you can't make it work for you?

Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?

Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door--" "Or," said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, "not." The door swung open onto a rectangle of darkness. "Now, that's simply laziness," said Will.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

Genius is the capacity for seeing what is not there.

Not all of us can be as bold as Jaime, but there are other ways to win wars.

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.