Quotes About Ingenuity

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on Art.

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

Art is the greatest opportunity to admire the human mind!

The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. -George Bernard Shaw

selling patents was a good idea only for someone like Edison, who had ideas faster than he could put them to practice. (He had a world-record 1,093 patents issued to him in the United States and 1,500 worldwide.)

With such a small brain, I don't know how you made it this far.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. —George Bernard Shaw

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Necessity is a mother.

A question, doctor, he said. Why doesn't the coyote take the money he spends on bird costumes and catapults and radioactive road runner food pellets and explosive missiles and simply go eat Chinese? He smiled coolly. Why doesn't the coyote simply go eat Chinese food?

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.

I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Decieve more slily that Ulysses could, And like a Sinon, take another Troy. I can add colors to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages And set the murderous Machiavel to school. Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? Tut! were it further off, I'll pluck it down.

The most damnable thing in the world is a servile copyist!

Las ciencias mecánicas ofrecen en tierra, en el aire, en las costas, posibilidades ilimitadas de novedad y de sorpresa, salidas de la forja o del laboratorio.

Goodness is helpless without wits

Yes, but I wasn't running around asking other people how to do it.

Justo castigo La vida es un auténtico caos, pensé. Los sentimientos resultan tan imprevisibles. ¿Cómo es posible que alguien soporte permanecer casado durante cuarenta años? Parece un milagro mayor que el paso del mar Rojo, aunque mi padre, en su ingenuidad, sostenga que es esto último un logro de mayor envergadura.

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

How true it is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

Within the limits of their nature, they make do with what they have.

Snails were freedom fighters' food; you could harvest them on the run and they'd go dormant and keep fresh in your pockets until you were in the clear to cook. The