Quotes About Ingenuity

I admire people who are creative.

I've been a big blagger all my life.

I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing. We had to amuse ourselves, so we had to become amusing.

If we found an ashtray in the studio, we'd try to play it and find a part for it in a song.

Little minds find gratification for their feelings, benevolent or otherwise, by a constant exercise of petty ingenuity.

L'inspiration, c'est l'occasion du génie.

Mes enfants, you mustn't go at things head-on, you are too weak; take it from me and take it from an angle... Play dead, play the sleeping dog.

Instead of forming new words I recommend to you any kind of artful management by which you may be able to give cost to old ones

Play isn't doing what we want, but doing what we can with the materials we find along the way.

Then a beat-up car lurched into sight towing an even more beat-up car. As the cars came near, I saw that they were connected back to front by a loop made of two seat belts buckled to each other. That was the only time I ever saw a Russian use a seat belt for any purpose at all.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

hustle for a youngster. But one day, the weather turned cold and nobody bought any Kool-Aid. My pops came home and said, "How'd you do today?" "It got cold—I didn't sell anything." "Well, if they ain't buying Kool-Aid, sell 'em cookies." He wasn't trying to give me a sweeping life lesson,

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Officers have been trying for hundreds of years to outsmart soldiers and have still not learned that it cannot be done. We can always count on the native ingenuity of the American GI to save us from ourselves, and to win wars.

If life gives you lemons, make some sort of fruity juice.

I'm a big kid, I'm a kid at heart, so I still love the classic family films, such as the great Warner Bros film 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' - not the remake, but the original. It's still one of the best movies, hands down, ever made, and of course that goes back to the ingenuity of the characters and the storyline.

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

I've worked as a labourer, driven taxis and school buses, and been a car mechanic - whatever I could do just to get by. But it does mean that I know a little bit about a lot of things.

I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be a black marketeer, I think.

When anyone pitches me - and I've heard it a million times: 'It's the black Seinfeld,' or, 'It's the new version of something that's already been successful' - I immediately shut it off. I won't ever entertain doing 'the new version of such-and-such.'

I love the idea of not being able to afford something and just making your own version or buying a cheap knock-off instead.

Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.

We've become accustomed to repurposing and living vicariously through other people's work instead of going out and making our own.

Progress has always been understood to be driven by exceptional white men. Whether it's the military victories we've achieved, the philosophical foundations that are the underpinnings of the nation, or our economic ingenuity, all this has been articulated through narratives of exceptional white men.