Quotes About Ingenuity

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

Creativeness is the ability to see relationships where none exist.

Americans tend to overanalyze. Like during the space race, NASA spent fifty thousand dollars developing a zero-gravity pen that didn't skip. Know what the Russians did? Pencil. Think about

When there is no work, I create my own.

Creativity is about taking what is the norm and expanding it and continuing to expand it and expand it and expand it and expand it.

I can see there's a connection between not following normal thinking and doing creative thinking. I wouldn't have had good scientific ideas if I had thought more normally.

When I was a young lad just out of college at the North Carolina School of the Arts, I directed several plays that I wrote. It was essential theater, meaning we had no money, so our set may be six stools and two chairs and eight cream pies.

For me, writing post-apocalyptic novels isn't so much about exploding helicopters and fifty-megaton doomsday bombs as it is about the pleasure of dealing with the best of everything that makes us human: cleverness, grit, loyalty, and self-sacrifice.

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

Whether I'm making a gluten-free cookie or a lactose-free milkshake, my end goal is always to make it so awesome, clever, and creative that you'll want to indulge whether you have a sensitivity, dietary nuance, or don't.

I would eat fruitcake if there'd been a nuclear war and I'd run out of canned goods.

I think being a little nuts is helpful.

I don't know anybody who's any good who isn't nuts.

The basic idea of a hackathon is to erase all routine obligations for the day so that employees can clear a mental space for creativity.

I'm allergic to doing the obvious thing.

The great ideas start flowing when you stop thinking about the obvious way of doing it.

On one occasion I had to sleep on a stretcher balanced on two kitchen chairs. It wasn't glamorous.

Oh, I know what to do when I see victuals coming toward me in little old Bagdad-on-the-Subway. I strike the asphalt three times with my forehead and get ready to spiel yarns for my supper.

Let others build a cave with their clay. I will build a castle with mine.

had once managed in half a day to replace the entire engine on a 1995 Mercedes with one from some old wreck, doing such a flawless job that the returning owner left the valet an especially large tip for having cleaned the car for him.

Faith is the best substitute for genius; in fact, it is closely allied to genius.

What would you do, if you were besieged in a place entirely destitute of provisions? As long as there was anything to eat in the enemy's camp, answered Napoleon, "I should not be at all concerned. A will finds a way.

As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last, every few generations, giving birth to genius. The one who invents the wheel. And light. And flight. The one who builds a city, a nation, an empire.

Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court, my ass. American ingenuity amounted to squat in this place.