Quotes About Ingenuity

A major study conducted by IBM found that the single most sought after trait in CEOs is creativity.

It was true. Odysseus' favorite task was the sort that only had to be performed once: raiding a town, defeating a monster, finding a way inside an impenetrable city.

When I was a boy and everyone played at wrestling monsters like Heracles, I dreamed of being Daedalus instead. It seemed the greater genius to look at raw wood and iron, and imagine marvels.

Diceva ciò che pensava e restava stupito quando gli altri non facevano lo stesso. Qualcuno avrebbe potuto scambiare quel tratto per ingenuità. Ma non è una caratteristica del genio andare sempre dritto al cuore?

I am a little world made cunningly.

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not wisdom, is why we devote such a huge proportion of the ingenuity and income of our societies to finding faster ways of doing things - as if the final aim of mankind was to grow closer not to a perfect humanity, but to a perfect lightning-flash.

The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.

I mean somebody with the wit and the guts to go and do and create. And, that I believe is what education is all about

Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done.

Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior.

I have a lot of experience with making fake helmets out of foil.

It's not the lack of resources that cause failure, it's the lack of resourcefulness that causes failure.

What a glorious legacy of faith, courage, and ingenuity those noble early Mormon pioneers have left for us to build upon. My admiration for them deepens the longer I live.

The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Tutti questi dèi, tutti questi mortali che lo hanno aiutato. Gli uomini parlano della sua astuzia. Il suo vero talento stava nella sua abilità a prendere dagli altri." (#Odisseo)

Esme began playing the game she often played with herself at times like this, looking over the room and working out how she might get round it without touching the floor. She could climb from the sofa to the low table and, from there, to the fender stool. Along that and then—

Even the rats carry bike chains as essential defence accessories.

the long years with no more shared adventures, in which age makes itself felt more heavily and in which, without the author's romantic ingenuity, forgetfulness might have consumed everything, or nearly so.

He responded with a tale about how, after spending hours in late 1937 queuing at a Jersey City pier to unload his truck, he realized that it would be quicker simply to hoist the entire truck body on board. From this incident, we are meant to believe, came his decision eighteen years later to buy a war-surplus tanker and equip it to carry 33-foot-long containers.

Just is not by other men of intelligence that an intelligent an is afraid of being thought a fool, so it is not by the great gentleman but by boors and 'bounders' that a man of fashion is afraid of finding his social value underrated. Three-fourths of the mental ingenuity displayed, of the social falsehoods scattered broadcast ever since the world began by people whose importance they have served only to diminish, have been aimed at inferiors.

Three-quarters of the mental ingenuity and the mendacious boasting squandered ever since the world began by people who are only cheapened thereby, have been aimed at inferiors.

Gotta love high-tech rednecks, Weaver said

It was breathtaking the situations that humans put themselves into, and still managed to thrive.