Quotes About Ingenuity

A man who excels in creating new things is the one who is good at dreaming when not sleeping.

He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders.

Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?

Success is not being the best at what you do, it's reinventing the way it's done making it fresh, new and more efficient.

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

If it was difficult for a visitor to find anything to eat impromptu in Moscow, Havana, Tirana, Bucharest, or Pyongyang, it took little effort to understand the connection of this difficulty with the vulgar anti-commercialism of Saint Karl and Saint Vladimir. Indeed, it would have taken all the ingenuity of the cleverest academics not to have understood it.

What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible.

Have you got a problem? Do what you can where you are with what you've got.

All the resources we need are in the mind.

Haz lo que puedas, con lo que tengas, donde estés

This was my first real lesson in politics… If you are cast on a desert island with only a screwdriver, hatchet, and the chisel to make a boat with, why, go and make the best one you can. It would be better if you had a saw, but you haven't, so with men.

F? ce po?i cu ce ai, acolo unde e?ti.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.

Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something.

We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.

Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.