Quotes About Ingenuity

To think outside the box; first you must learn how to open the box.

We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.

Really ingenious, he said. He had a Minnesotan's admiration for resourcefulness in the face of hardship, bred by generations of people one very bad winter away from starvation and cannibalism. I

The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.

I have had to change the game to one that is a match of wits rather than brawn to give myself a fighting chance.

You have a drawer full of dull butter knives and an old pair of kitchen shears. You are hardly armed to the teeth.

Entrepreneur, take a bite out of Apple's innovation so in turn you can bear fruits of creativity.

Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.

Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?

My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.

You must use what you have,' he says, the advice of a good man to a whore for time immemorial. 'You must use what you are allowed.

does not ingenuity consist in the finding or creating of connections between apparently extraneous orders of ideas?)

She lived with the doctor on Via Po, in a gloomy, dark apartment, barely warmed in winter by just a small Franklin stove, and she no longer threw out anything, because everything might eventually come in handy: not even the cheese rinds or the foil on chocolates, with which she made silver balls to be sent to missions to "free a little black boy.

A me interessavano di più le storie della chimica solitaria, inerme e appiedata, a misura d'uomo, che con poche eccezioni è stata la mia: ma è stata anche la chimica dei fondatori, che non lavoravano in équipe ma soli, in mezzo all'indifferenza del loro tempo, per lo più senza guadagno, e affrontavano la materia senza aiuti, col cervello e con le mani, con la ragione e la fantasia.

No, no era una superheroína, pero era otra cosa. Era una persona... con recursos.

She'd started handcuffed, armed with a paper clip. Now she had a ten-inch strip of metal with sharp edges, handcuffs, and a paper clip. Her odds were improving all the time.

Any fool can kill. It takes genius to create.

Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon it with wonder and curiosity, compounded with an unconscious recognition of his lineage. He could not physically re-enter the ocean as the seals and whales had done. But over the centuries, with all the skill and ingenuity and reasoning powers of his mind, he has sought to explore and investigate even its most remote parts, so that he might re-enter it mentally and imaginatively.

I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially. E. B. WHITE

one of those doctors who work for nothing in countries that are so poor the people have no money, so they trade with one another using bricks of dry animal dung they can burn to heat their hovels and a few diseased chickens and maybe some edible tubers that they dig out of the floor of a snake-infested jungle

improvisator.

A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.

I ate ants. They weren't that bad.

For me, what makes a dope concept is it's a fresh idea, something that I've never heard before.