Quotes About Ingenuity

The sharp employ the sharp.

Oh the thinks you can think up if only you try!

In its early years, he gave three explanations as to why the company survived: "We didn't have any money, we didn't have any technology, and we didn't have a plan

An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.

when life gives you lemons. Make yourself a screwdriver

Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of.

An authentic and ingenious account of the ingeniously counterfeit in art and in life.

My greatest life lesson has been to not wait for the opportunities to come to me. I realize how important it is to be proactive and to create the opportunities myself.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and sell it to all of those who get thirsty from complaining.

While the women in Alaska certainly knew they were physically weaker than most men, it never meant they weren't cleaver enough to find a way to get the job done

What differentiates sellers today is their ability to bring fresh ideas.

I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.

If life gives you limes make margaritas.

On a shrunken planet where nearly every mountain bears bootprints and every mile of river has been run, being 'first' tends to require creative task definition" (111).

With taste, and a little study and ingenuity, any woman can have a perfectly lovely place. Lacking taste? Ask! Any good store will happily give you expert advice. If you can't afford that, look—feel—observe. And your friends will be enchanted to tell you what to do. (Be sure they're friends with beautiful homes.)

I've heard of women who started beauty parlors in a spare room, or thrift shops, or who took courses to become real-estate brokers. Others have special talents or college training that they can put to use on a part-time basis. Any woman can start a childcare center.

The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you're worrying about whether you're hopeful or hopeless or pessimistic or optimistic, who cares? The main thing is that you're showing up, that you're here and that you're finding ever more capacity to love this world because it will not be healed without that. That was what is going to unleash our intelligence and our ingenuity and our solidarity for the healing of our world.

A whole new thing. A forging of the humble parts of bread and cheese into a greater whole. I call it...a cheese-trap.

Camille didn't know how to cook, so she had stopped in at Goubetzkoï's and bought an assortment of tarama , salmon, marinated fish and onion chutneys. They filled all the great-uncle's little bowls with painstaking care, and to reheat the blinis on the hot plate they fashioned an ingenious sort of toaster from an old lid and some tinfoil.

At this period, too, Leningraders resorted to their most desperate food substitutes, scraping dried glue from the underside of wallpaper and boiling up shoes and belts. (Tannery processes had changed, they discovered, since the days of Amundsen and Nansen, and the leather remained tough and inedible.)

Necessity breeds solution.

If you're ever in a jam, a crayon scrunched up under your nose makes a good pretend mustache.