Quotes About Ingenuity

When there is no real hope we must mint our own

The third guy was different. He was what you got when you ate squirrels for four generations. Smarter than a rat and tougher than a goat, and jumpier than either one.

Waste not, want not, make do and mend, don't make an exhibition of yourself.

A visitor from outer space would assume the viability of the United States depended entirely on the ability of the citizenry to carry eight-by-four sheets of board, safely and in vast quantities.

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Human beings can build airplanes, but they can't build a human being like you.

DON'T TOUCH A CLICHÈ WITH A TEN-FOOT POLE

discovering that hunter-gatherers had constructed Göbekli Tepe was like finding that someone had built a 747 in a basement with an X-Acto knife.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

While human ingenuity may devise various inventions to the same ends, it will never devise anything more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than nature does, because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and, above all others, the most useful.

Wenn auch der menschliche Geist durch vielfache Erfindungen mit verschiedenen Instrumenten auf dasselbe Ziel zugeht, nie wird er eine Erfindung machen, die schöner, leichter und kürzer wäre als die Natur.

You're mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.

You found a pen?" "No, but I have a can of Cheez Whiz. I'll write your number on the counter with it, then find a pen and copy it.

The way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

The Partisan case was advanced as well by Trilling's insistence that what commends modernist writing to progressive readers is, precisely, the challenge it often makes to progressive belief: "The contemporary authors we most wish to read and most wish to admire for their literary qualities demand of us a great agility and ingenuity in coping with their antagonism to our social and political ideals.

An invitation to innovation, Radiant Orchid encourages expanded creativity and originality, which is increasingly valued in today's society.

The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.

Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity.

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, it's just a matter of us figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be heard.

The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.