Quotes About Ingenuity

The Dimensional Mind has two essential requirements: one, a high level of knowledge about a field or subject; and two, the openness and flexibility to use this knowledge in new and original ways.

But it's not what you have that brings you victory, it's how you use it.

Everybody steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot myself. But I know how to steal. Thomas Edison, 1847-1931

In the absence of genius there is always craftsmanship.

Anything can be a weapon, if the man or woman who holds it has the nerve and will to make it so.

And not the sort of thing you have imagination enough to think up.

Spy a striking new tack to take with a problem? Don't worry about elaborate scientific controls for now: Just get hysterical and do it

En lugar de buscar un empleo, busca problemas que necesiten ser resueltos.

One can talk about cars and X rays, of course, with a certain amount of feeling, but what else can one do about the countless other inventions and discoveries that nowadays every single day brings forth, other than to marvel at human inventiveness in general, which in the long run gets to be too tiresome!

You can't make bricks without straw, and most of the time all the straw you got is secondhand straw from the cowpen.

The ingenious way in which Dennison and his colleagues broke out of their seemingly impregnable prison, using only a steel belt buckle, a tungsten filament, three hens' eggs, and twelve chemicals that can be readily obtained from the human body, is too well known to be repeated here.

An entrepreneur can make money out of nothing.

It is how creative you are in solving financial problems.

the person with the ability, knowledge, or creativity to solve problems will see more opportunities than ever.

Imagination is what you need.

The trouble with him seems to be that he hasn't enough imagination.

Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull nobody would read them.

We make our own lives wherever we are, after all .

Remember, there's more than one way to skin a cat. It can be done so that the animal will never know he's lost his hide.

Cathedrals became houses of light, not of God, monuments to man's architectural inspiration, where humanity worshiped its own ingenuity and not God's presence.

La necesidad es la madre de todos los inventos y todas las posturas.

Everything from the little house was in the wagon except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.

Laura had only a corncob wrapped in a handkerchief, but it was a good doll. It was named Susan.

Whatever are you making, Pa?" Laura asked, and he answered, "Wait and see." He heated the tip of the poker red-hot in the stove, and carefully he burned black every alternate little square. "Curiosity killed a cat, Pa," Laura said. "You look pretty healthy," said Pa.