Quotes About Ingenuity

Little House on the Prairie.

My mother took the measure of what could be built with the material she'd been given, and she built it.

High-proficiency environments help a group deliver a well-defined, reliable performance, while high-creativity environments help a group create something new.

The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether it's in the arts, sciences, or business." TERESA AMABILE Professor, Harvard

Now, once a quarter, the company sets aside an entire day when its engineers can work on any software problem they want—only this time, "to get them out of the day to day," it must be something that's not part of their regular job.

To reprise language from the previous chapter, the solution isn't algorithmic (following a set path) but heuristic (breaking from the path to discover a novel strategy).

It is in fact the discovery and creation of problems rather than any superior knowledge, technical skill, or craftsmanship that often sets the creative person apart from others in his field."8

The guy who invented the wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius." —SID CAESAR

We might even purposely create time for boredom on a summer day, so they have to go to the garage and see what interesting fun they can have with a pulley, some rope, and a roll of duct tape.

I think viewers quite like it when I'm suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.

I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

The truth is, the less a subject had to do with the visible world, the more talented I was at solving problems.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

creativity described as being the ability to grasp the essence of one thing and the essence of some very different thing and smash them together to create some entirely new thing. That's

no one had ever let them think that initiative was acceptable behavior.

There's really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward–opening new doors and doing new things—because we're curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting…we call it "Imagineering"—the blending of creative imagination and technical know-how.

Walt Disney defined Imagineering as the blending of creative imagination and technical know-how. I like

You can think of a lot of things to make out of nothing, if you have to.

Gabri plugged the oven and the espresso machine into the generator,' explained Olivier. 'No lights, but we have the necessities.

You can get a goat to climb tree, but you'd be better off hiring a squirrel.

I have to go to the toilet," I tell Ma urgently after dinner. "You have to go in the woods." "But where?" "Anywhere you can find. Wait, I'll get you some toilet paper." Ma goes away and comes back with a bunch of paper sheets in her hand. My eyes widen in disbelief, "Ma! It's money. I can't use money!" "Use it, it is of no use to us anymore.

The design of good interfaces takes time and ingenuity.

Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow and whose ingenuity will make the life of coming generations more agreeable. They want the way left open to further economic improvements. They are the spokesmen of progress.

The first thing a genius needs is to breathe free air.