Quotes About Ingenuity

The best of life is the exercise of ingenuity-in design, in finance, in flying, in business.

Having genius means to digest influences while losing all footprint and trace of them.

Will you pretty please with brown sugar and cinnamon make a fucking Scrabble word?

Anyone can produce a new fact; the thing is to produce a new idea.

You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea

You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

creativity is not a gimmick, but a lifestyle.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

Because man was created in the image of a creator. Man was created that he might create. It is not a waste of mans time to be creative. It is not a waste to pursue artistic or scientific pursuits in creativity, because this is what man was made to be able to do. He was made in he image of a creator, and given the capacity to create.

In our industrial and social system the interests of all men are so closely intertwined that in the immense majority of cases a straight-dealing man who by his efficiency, by his ingenuity and industry, benefits himself must also benefit others.

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can

Talent does what it can: Genius does what it must.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.

A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see — and hits it.

Save a tree. Eat a beaver.

When life gives you scraps, make something with them.

When life throws you scraps, make a quilt.

If you're being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.

Recipe: A series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don't own, to make a dish the dog wouldn't eat.

When life throws you lemons, make orange juice. It will leave them wondering how the hell you did that.