Quotes About Ingenuity

there's a deep current of humanity in our innovation.

great innovations are usually the result of ideas that flow from a large

glories of being able to think different, yet until

market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.

their ability to work as teams made them even more creative. The tale of their teamwork is important because we don't often focus on how central that skill is to innovation.

What made Leonardo a genius, what set him apart from people who are merely extraordinarily smart, was creativity, the ability to apply imagination to intellect.

innovative creativity that it would outlive them.

Ingenuity without wisdom is dangerous.

Just as bacteria have spent millennia evolving ways to develop immunity to viruses, perhaps we humans should use our ingenuity to do the same.

Es importante fomentar la individualidad —decía—, ya que solo el individuo puede producir las nuevas ideas.

But the most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself.

You can invent your way to a better place.

society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity. Therein

tinker with a lot of contraptions. A few months after Franklin returned to Philadelphia, Dr. Spencer came

The metaphor, though obvious, is too good to resist: Franklin, by nature, liked to find ingenious ways to calm turbulent waters. But during his time as a diplomat in England, this instinct would fail him.

It is important to foster individuality," he said, "for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

where a party of untrained English Territorials tried to hold them with a barricade of cardboard boxes.

Think about it; the quicktank is given a job most of us would laugh out of town. Build a sophisticated camera capable of full 3-D input and peripheral pickup, using only water and jelly. Build an eye.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

The young man was even more astonished by the cleverness and audacity of his cat.

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have.

You can not shoe a flea," Russians say. Whoever coined the proverb forgot about poets.

If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper.

All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.