Quotes About Ingenuity

I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.

We didn't do a square ball in 'Pong' because we thought it was cool. We did it because that was all we could do.

I drew these natural sponges for a while and gave them googly eyes, and it didn't come together until I drew a sink sponge one day. I thought, 'This is the guy.' He's the square peg, literally, in this world of animals.

That's John Constantine. You put him in a corner, and you squeeze him, and he'll find his way out. There's something in him - he's a great escape artist.

The nice thing about Squirrel Girl is that she's smart, and she looks for situations that don't necessarily involve punching people all the time.

My parents scrimped and saved all their lives, to the point where my mother used a disgusting old oven mitt that was stained and partly patched together with a skirt I made in seventh grade.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.

What one man can invent, another can discover.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.

High tax rates are followed by attempts of ingenious men to beat them as surely as surely as snow is followed by little boys on sleds.

Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.

Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.

It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.

One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.

The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination!

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

Anything a man can imagine, another can create