Quotes About Ingenuity

more likely to have creative ideas (or less likely to suffer from group-think).

el que engaña con arte halla siempre gente que se deje engañar.

My heroes are always ready, willing, and able to execute moves necessary to get themselves out of deep trouble.

I'm a musical genius.

This was my motto: 'Don't come up with routine stuff.'

How do you manage to turn everything to your advantage?" His hand found the bare skin of her satin-smooth thigh, reveling in all that warm heat. "I do not know the answer to that, little one. Perhaps it is sheer talent.

The one benefit of maturity is discovering just how crafty you can be.

Sometimes this high-tech world calls for low-tech solutions.

If I live through this, she thought, I'm going to save a fortune on utilities.

Out came an extraordinarily complex network of plastic, brass, and stainless-steel tubing, which in seconds Kona had assembled into what Quinn thought was either a very small and elegant linear particle accelerator or, more likely, the most complex bong ever constructed.

Don't simply knock and wait for the door to be opened. Go look for the keys. Some fit the lock better than others.

All that can be cherished from this world, all that makes life worth living is that which is mined from its bowels through your own toil, fashioned from its clay by your own craft, fired in the kiln of your heart. Oh, how precious, how delightful a feast, the life that has been forged by its own master!

We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.

From shit, thus, I extract pure Shinola

El genio es el que pone en juego uno de esos componentes de manera vertiginosa, alimentándolo con los demás.

A simple, magnificent equation: ingenuity plus hope equals change

Other kids—blind date with someone's brother. Me? A blind date with a wrench.

was one of the fixed laws of the universe that Americans could beat Europeans at anything, once they put their minds to it.

What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy, how rapidly do they create terrifying depths?

If there is no sun,one must be made

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

There are but two ways of rising in the world, either by your own industry or by the folly of others.

Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.

One of his mechanics who despaired when he could not get spare parts for the tanks once announced casually that most of them were ordinary parts he used to order from Sears, Roebuck. Patton seized upon the remark. When it proved impossible to obtain the parts through regular channels—partly because of the red tape and partly because the Army simply did not have any at that stage—he ordered them from Sears, Roebuck and paid the bill out of his own pocket.