Quotes About Ingenuity

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

If an employee can demonstrate results produced in a way that the company didn't think possible, then a new way forward can begin to take shape.

I'm a producer at heart.

Sometimes you need to find ways to win games in different ways.

If you are going to think the same as everyone else and do the same as everyone else, you will end up being the same as everyone else. In today's competitive environment you have to think a bit differently.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

My mom had to be resourceful. She grew up dirt poor in rural Louisiana.

As an actor, you need to use everything at your disposal.

My kids do very extraordinary things that make sense.

No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.

I was the girl who got out of my athletic requirement by managing the boys' sports teams. Which is pretty ingenious, because when I was a sophomore, I got a prom date out of it. That was really strong planning on my part.

On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.

Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me.

My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board.

We are looking for highly technical, enthusiastic and capable entrepreneurs who have a healthy disregard for the impossible, and that's not always easy to find.

You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

There can be no technique or formula for creativity.

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

Clearly the human story is one of acceleration. There has been a Moore curve in terms of the number of people alive on the planet, our technological ability, and our ability to understand ourselves. We have had this extraordinary, explosive growth in our ingenuity.

Everybody is so busy talking about 'Twittering' and talking about the new technologies and talking about this and that, but they don't talk about creativity.

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.

Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.

America has always had tinkerers, including just about any teenager who ever hot-rodded a Camaro.

I built two forges when I was in my teens. I was just really, really into metalworking and making stuff.