Quotes About Ingenuity

I imagine you're actually rather good at what you do, in spite of certain disadvantages. Disadvantage and peculiar competence can go hand in hand, I find.

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I just know once you're over your emotional outbursts, you'll come up with-' I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something,' Westley said.

I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Big problems are rarely solved with commensurately big solutions.

You want to invent new ideas, not new rules.

Deep inside every customer is a treasure trove of half-baked ideas, creative capacity, and ingenuity-in-the-raw.

Nigerians are everywhere. There's an old joke, particularly about the Ibos, that when you finally land on Mars, you're going to find a Nigerian there who has a shop that is selling Coca-Cola--who took a speculative trip 20 years ago and has been waiting for everyone else to arrive.

This sounded to me like a three-cocktail problem and there I was without so much as an olive!

That's what engineering is all about, folks. Turning dreams into reality!

Thanks," said Walter. "My dad's an engineer. He knows how to take wacky ideas and actually make them work.

Los héroes sacan oro de lo que tienen a mano en lugar de esperar a tener en la mano oportunidades de oro.

Conocimiento de sí mismo, ingenio, amor y heroísmo. No son cuatro técnicas sino cuatro principios que dan forma a una manera de vivir, un modo de proceder. Ningún jesuita triunfó adoptando tres de los principios y prescindiendo del cuarto.

So from here on out, we need to find a way to fight the killer with brains, not brawn. Attack this problem like scientists, not... Dirty Harry.

Okay," Nina said. "What if you two drop the special acid and concentrate on opening the gate again, and I'll stand by with Lulu.

Through her ingenuity she invented a shorthand Greek script in which a long written narrative could be transcribed with far fewer letters, and which is still used by the Greeks today, a fine invention whose discovery demanded great sublety. She [Minerva/Pallas (Athena)] invented numbers and a means of quickly counting and adding sums.

Necessity is the motherfucker of invention.

It's hard to find a woman without tactics. That'll be why I made one up.

having grown up with the mantra of, 'if you're cold, put another jumper on until your arms can no longer touch your sides',

I know a man who doesn't pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

Clever men will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.