Quotes About Ingenuity

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

Dimitri: "They weren't supposed to let you in."Rose: "Yeah. Well, I kind of found a work-around."Dimitri: "Of course you did."- Dimitri Belikov and Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)

People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.

If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.

Creativity is energy being put to work in a constructive fashion.

I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.

It's challenging and interesting for me to work on projects that are unique and unconventional. I'm so bored with seeing the same recycled material.

I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.

In today's work arena, creativity may be more of an asset than competence.

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.

No one can help you if you're stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can see the work's possibilities.

You work with what you got.

I have a really powerful urge to see things work.

Americans have always excelled through hard work, innovation, and an ability to find solutions that makes us unique among nations.

God created man, but I could do better.

America is successful because of the hard work and creativity and enterprise of our people.

My brother shaved a cricket bat out of a coconut branch... we played cricket with anything we put our hands on - a hard orange, a lime, a marble - anything we could use in the backyard or the streets.

Thinking differently is my strength.

I grew up very poor, so I learned how to stretch a dollar. It's nice to combine high-end with low-end or whatever-end you want.

It's amazing how small business owners figure out how to stretch a dollar as far as they possibly can.

I don't want to come in and do something that's been done before. You know, for me, it's not that I wouldn't come in and do a sequel to something, but it's only if I can bring something new to the table and I'm not following an extremely strict path.

From the preemptive strike that destroyed Egypt's air force during the Six-Day War, to the daring raid on Entebbe, to using all available means to slow the Iranian nuclear program, Israelis have combined strength with ingenuity to keep the country's enemies at bay.

I can fish from a stick and a string.

I needed a capo - a clamp to hold down the strings - so my daddy made me one out of a corn on the cob and a rubber band.