Quotes About Ingenuity

Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.

When somebody would come in with a sketch that was not so good, you figured out in a room how to make that sketch work.

My talent is getting things to work that people think are many decades in the future. I say we can make them happen now.

'm the inspiration for picking it up off the floor after it fell off the stool and figuring out a way to make it still work.

Think outside of the box. Work outside of the box. Dream outside of the box. Succeed outside of the box.

... Gunpei Yokoi, asked his boss, 'What should I make?' Nintendo chief executive Hiroshi Yamauchi replied, 'Something great.'Game Over Nintendo's Battle to Dominate Videogames

People who create their own opportunities are more successful than people who expect opportunities to be created for them.

Joblessness gives you access to a vast number of resources

Poverty is the mother of invention

Poverty is the origin of invention

Be innovative and creative

Thinking outside of the box keeps you from suffocating inside of one.

Consuming the content and culture of creatives does not make one a creative. Creating makes a creative.

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

We never had a giant library or owned a lot of commercial characters the way most studios did. And since we didn't have a lot of internal resources, we had to find ways to be inventive and resourceful, which I think is a healthy way to run a good business.

I don't study; I create.

My style of cooking is definitely inspired by my mum. She called herself a peasant cook. Shed make recipes up from whatever was in the larder.

So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here.

America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

The most striking results are for the job category of inventors. If you are looking for inventors, IQ is by far the most significant of all the measurable variables we have. Furthermore, at higher levels of measured IQ the probability of becoming an inventor rises all the more.

When one door of opportunity slams shut in your face, you don't turn around and go home, boo. Oh, no. You just go through that side door, and if that's closed, go through the back door, the cellar door, the attic—just get in the damn house!

Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better

Intelligence is the only unlimited natural resource