Quotes About Ingenuity

When Philip of Macedonia, the father of Alexander the Great, was told that a certain city in his army's path was impregnable, he asked: "Is there not a pathway to it wide enough for an ass laden with gold?" It was the fate of Vidkun Quisling to be nothing but an ass.

The elders teach us: be a trickster, and you will survive.

Tools?" scoffed Kalisti, "Tools are for people who have nothing better to do than think things through and make sensible plans.

Any luck?" Lazlo asked her when he saw her coming back from a test at the anchor. "Luck has nothing to do with it," she replied. "It's all strength and cleverness." She winked, flexing her hands like five-legged spiders. "And glue.

The women's way was more effective. They might be ignored, abused, or dominated, but in the end the women were more practical, keeping their eye on whatever prize was within their grasp.

But these being glove-gray country mice that have skittered in from a Tom-and-Jerry cartoon, I root for their innocence and ingenuity. I am even mouse-proud. My mice arc smarter than your mice! After the stunt with the Skippy peanut butter jar, I felt as if they had gotten 8oos on their SATs. These guys arc good.

Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful.

Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck.

Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope.

I could eat a boot, I think, if it were well boiled, with perhaps a dash of salt for flavoring.

Rules are for those who can't think of a better way.

But the pods also held the things people had created—the finest examples of the artistry and the ingenuity of our own species. How could we be so creative and so destructive at the same time?

Si ha de haber paz, la paz tendrá que ser activa, los motivos de la lucha han de mantenerse vivos para darle empleo a la ambición del hombre, a su ingenio, a su espíritu inestable.

Reality can be entered through the main door or it can be slipped into through a window, which is much more fun.

When life hands you lemons, why stop at lemonade? Create an entire product line.

Oh holy asinity! holy ignorance! Holy foolishness and pious devotion! You who alone do more to advance and make souls good Than human ingenuity and study...

El hombre es más artista que la naturaleza.

What I'm trying to do is get this message out about self-empowerment, entrepreneurial spirit and true Americanism - the way we were when we changed the world, when Edison was alone, failing his 2 000th time on the lightbulb.

Para que la obra más grande de todas se realice, un solo ingenio les basta a mil manos.

Dear Life: When you give me dilemmas, I make dilemmanade.

What if you stumble? Do what any choreographer would instruct you to do: Make it part of the dance.

Silner's hut we called it. There he spent his free time, surrounded by boxes and cans (we use the spar deck to store everything that we have no other space for), doing those mysterious things that all photographers seem to do when left to themselves.