Quotes About Ingenuity

Everyone talks about, 'Get your foot in the door,' but I never understood that mentality. Why would I want to go in that house? Why not build my own house? Why not take a chair and smash a window?

Sometimes you don't get in through the front door. Sometimes you don't get in through the back. Sometimes you got to climb through the window. That doesn't mean the opportunity wasn't there. There's a way; you've just got to find it.

If one door is closed, break a window anyway.

Any window of opportunity is important. If your hands are tied, you should swim with your legs. If your legs are tied, you should try to hold on to the edge of the boat with your teeth. We have to use every option.

My ears are huge. If there's ever a problem with a plane I'm on, they could just put me on the wing and I'll land the sucker.

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

I grew up with stories of people who start their own businesses and do really well. So I thought, 'OK, that's what you do.' I can thank my dad for that.

Thank God for my imagination. For my abilities to mimic.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.

I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.

Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script.

The one thing I had pure in my life was creativity.

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights.

Our approach is not to look at the successes of other people and try to repeat those successes. We don't look at the success of 'Grand Theft Auto 3' and think that maybe if we create games for older audiences will see a similar success.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

There seems to be a theme running through the women I play. They take their circumstances and try to make the best of them.

By definition, inventing new ideas requires you to think about things that are not already in your mind.

As for me, I'll do what I do best. I'll lie, cheat, steal, and survive!

Necessity and desperation birth resourcefulness.

If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody who's life is giving them vodka, and have a party.

I believe when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade...and try to find someone whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Then find someone who's life is givin' them vodka and have a party!