Quotes About Ingenuity

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

I will either find a way or make one.

If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go.

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have.

Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

Ideas, more than money, are really the currency for success.

Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

Tell me," replied Faria, "what has hindered you from knocking down your jailer with a piece of wood torn from your bedstead, dressing yourself in his clothes, and endeavoring to escape?" "Simply the fact that the idea never occurred to me," answered Dantes.

I separated the fat from the meat served to me, melted it, and so made oil—here is my lamp." So saying, the abbe exhibited a sort of torch very similar to those used in public illuminations.

If you can't do it naturally, then fake it.

I am telling you Discouraged One we will win. And I will show you why. We are the offspring of the ignorantly discarded: we conjure sunrise with our smiles and provoke music out of trash. Who can completely disappear such genius?

But a voting-machine that human ingenuity can not pervert, human ingenuity can not invent. That

But we must work with the tools we have, as Savine's father had been so fond of saying.

Don't copy. Create.

Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

If you know how to use a pencil to draw, you could draw anything. Now apply that to everything in life.

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.

I used everything you gave me.

You have to invent life.

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!