Quotes About Ingenuity

I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.

All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work.

Take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.

"I could have done it in a much more complicated way," said the Red Queen, immensely proud.

We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work.

Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced.

If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.

The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

I believe there are Steve Jobses all around us. Really, what is happening is that they're being edited out of importance.

My mother really would make these dreadful concoctions. She really prided herself on something called 'Everything Stew,' where she would take everything in the refrigerator, all the leftovers, and put them all together.

I don't have a real recipe with measurements for my chicken stew. I just kind of make it up as I go. I made it for the first time one Christmas when I came home from college. It's guaranteed to cure a cold.

Engineering stimulates the mind.

Half of 'Mudbound' were shots I stole in between other scenes.

Which other people in this world stop up holes in their sidewalks with cassava, brothers and sisters? Only Indonesia itself, on account of the abundance of its food.

And, as if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women had miscarriages, menstruation stopped.

People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.

I was 17 years old when I built the first store... A very simple, basic store with a basic counter - not very much equipment, all purchased second-hand. And the menu was very simple.

it was through constructing a network of railways across some of Europe's most arduous terrain that the newly formed Italian nation won a reputation for ingenuity and adventurous construction projects.