Quotes About Ingenuity

Mater artium necessitas [Necessity is the mother of invention].

I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.

I don't want to be trending. Instead of pursuing ideas of being more radio-friendly and... commercial, I want to go harder at being more creative.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew it. I mean, who does that anymore?

I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.

Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.

I once used a fork to comb my hair because there was a time when I didn't own a hairbrush.

I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.

I believe in America. I believe in free enterprise.

As an action director, I always try to bring something fresh and new.

I always make sure that every film of mine has some element of freshness to it.

I belong to the breed of first-generation entrepreneurs who have basically created our enterprises with very frugal resources.

There's nobody you can call and say, 'So, can you maybe send me your formula for frying Hollandaise?' because to the best of my knowledge, it didn't exist before we did it.

If you want something bad enough, and you're having enough fun doing it, you can accomplish it. You just got to get creative and find a way.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

I don't want to design something that everybody else would do. I want to design something that's bigger or better or funnier or more beautiful.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Madness in method, that's genius

You think that in a world without birds, men would not invent aircraft! What a fool you are! Men can invent anything!

Madness in method, that is genius.

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

There isn't a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn't have a second job, for when there is no wind.