Quotes About Ingenuity

If it was raining soup, you'd be out there with a fork.

Something about Bekka and Haylee reminded her of Candace's line between ingenious and insane. Ingenuity inspired their dreams, and insanity gave them the courage to pursue them. It was something Melody wanted for herself.

Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.

On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS

If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

Al sexto día, Dios vio que no podía hacer todo, entonces creó a los ingenieros

With the opposable thumb our ancestors made weapons, harnessed fire, fashioned tools and implements, created works of art, and hitch-hiked.

Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects around him. He suffers from a nostalgia for which there is no remedy upon earth except as it is to be found in the enlightenment of the spirit--some ability to have a perceptive rather than an exploitive relationship with his fellow creatures.

To vault from the trenches of habitual thinking -- that is the birth of genius. Traussbery

She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hairbrush and told, There you go. -- Willing

I have only strength and ingenuity, and neither trade nor land.

Stanley spent more time pushing the wheelbarrow than digging, because he was such a slow digger. He carted away the excess dirt and dumped it into previously dug holes. He was careful not to dump any of it in the hole where the gold tube was actually found.

Being still too young to go often to the theater, and not rich enough to afford any great outlay for private performances, the girls put their wits to work, and necessity being the mother of invention, made whatever they needed.

The girls put their wits to work, and - necessity being the mother of invention - made whatever they needed.

La necesidad es la madre de la invención.

Nobody ever accused Gates of thinking small.

As I have often said, governments don't produce economic growth, people do. What government can do is encourage Americans to tap their well of ingenuity and unleash their entrepreneurial spirit, then get out of the way.

admire the ingenuity that goes into this but I am not at all convinced that such people have quite got the right end of the stick. Does God really want us to know, in exact detail, ancient Babylonian history? I suspect not. But I am confident that God does want us to know how people in circumstances of acute displacement, living with the fear and the anxiety of a persecuted minority, responded to a hostile state and a pagan power.

Anything you can do, I can do meta

but when I told her they didn't cost one penny and were very nutritious (I made that part up, but I'm sure it must be true), she ate them up. She packed them into her lunch pail this morning, and when I looked

And with an inventiveness no one would have suspected from the standard of Stanley's school work:

An enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended," old G.K. opined, "on finding defenses for the indefensible conduct of the powerful

Effective leaders know that resources are never the problem; it's always a matter or resourcefulness.

My only strength is finding something where most people would find nothing.