Quotes About Ingenuity

He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in his whole life had any talent for making money.

They have one quilt and a piece of canvas for bedding. The sleeping arrangement is clever. Mother and father lie down together and two children lie between them. Then heading the other way, the other two children lie, the littler ones. If the mother and father sleep with their legs spread wide, there is room for the legs of the children.

I look for things that no one I know, even myself, would ever come up with. If your solution is something that your friends or family might come up with, throw it away.

Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

We were so poor we had no hot water. But it didn't matter because we had no bathtub to put it in anyway.

Prodigy only feeds on prodigy, fantasy on fantasy.

William Tell's son, Telly, who said as his father was pointing the bow and arrow at the apple on his head, There's gotta be an easier way to kill worms. Never got a dinner!

When life gives you lemons, add sweet tea.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

If life deals you lemons, make lemonade; if it deals you tomatoes, make Bloody Marys.

Being unique is a lifelong process. It's difficult to be fresh and new all the time but it's the only way to be.

Just as it is not by other men of intelligence that an intelligent man is afraid of being thought a fool, so it is not by a nobleman but by an oaf that a man of fashion is afraid of finding his social value underrated. 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.

A rich man's soup - and all from a few stones. It seemed like magic!

Genius is fostered by energy.

each followed such a profession as was most proper for the nature of their Species, which the Empress encouraged them in, especially those that had applied themselves to the study of several Arts and Sciences; for they were as ingenious and witty in the invention of profitable and useful Arts, as we are in our world, nay, more; and to that end she erected Schools, and founded several Societies.

Not an elegant tapestry but a serviceable quilt.

If someone asked me to sum up what is great about my country, I would probably tell them about Apollo 11, about the four hundred thousand people who worked to make the impossible come true within eight years ...

An new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.

It's never about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness.

paraphrasing from chapter 8) you must adjust to the culture established by the power [..] contrast between flexibility & ingenuity compared to structure & consistency. the former is about exploring new ideas and changing plans, the latter is about delivering on time(structured timelines, due dates) and in budget

I think there are too many smart people pursuing internet stuff, finance, and law. That is part of the reason why we haven't seen as much innovation.

Hell, when I was growing up, I could make a meal out of a package of Top Ramen and a bottle of Windex.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.