Quotes About Ingenuity

I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been shown to work.

I hate clever-cleverness, but I love good honest cleverness.

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

I usually make films with $2 and a paper clip.

People used to think we just faked all that stuff... it was all written, rehearsed. The fact that it looks as cobbled together as it does is just that we weren't very good.

Copiers do not collaborate.

Don't sit there and complain. Rub your hands together and figure out what to do.

No one has the Houdini school of composition.

I don't think there's a performer in this world who makes better use of their surroundings than I do.

My architecture is the architecture of survival.

Imagination is an instrument of survival.

Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.

So I always respected the guys who were trying to do it on their own without taking a handout from a big organization. They were trying to create their own thing, the DIY style, which is sort of always been my style, kind of a makeshift survival mode and really just kind of forging your own path.

I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.

Blacks had survived every form of human debasement with ingenuity, self-reliance, a deep and ironic humor, a capacity for self-reinvention and a heroic fortitude. But we had no experience of wide-open freedom.

I learned how to make an endoscope using a Swiss Army Knife, a cell phone camera, cell phone, and chewing gum.

I go to each job and open my little briefcase up, and I take out the things that I have or I know. It might be a Swiss army knife, a quart of milk and a ruler. That might be all I can bring to it, but that's what I have.

One of my favorite books is 'The Swiss Family Robinson.' The reason is, I'm fascinated by the postapocalyptic recovery. What do we do in a disaster? How do we make do?

I can't bring a sword into the ground, so have to make do with the bat.

I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.

This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat.

local eating calls for more ingenuity and self-sacrifice in some places than in others.

We like our players to play for fun and to be happy rather than afraid. It's like that in any business. If you have employees who work through fear, you're not going to get any ingenuity out of them. You're not going to get any employees who will take a gamble or come up with ideas. All you'll have are robots that are going to do their jobs, have a low-key approach, stay out of trouble. They'll put in their hours and go home. But I'd rather have it the other way.

We were poor. If I wasn't a boy, I wouldn't have had nothing to play with.