Quotes About Ingenuity

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

I'm not from that world where you get on your feet and somebody gives you a suggestion and you improv your way through things.

Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.

It was the summer of 1998. At that point, we were just scrounging around to find resources; we had stolen these computers from all over the department, sort of.

Uzi is insanely good and super creative.

This again is one of the hardest tests of the creative individual: he must always remain unconscious, unsuspecting of his best virtues, if he would not rob them of their ingenuousness and untouchedness!

All it takes to get along in this here man's town is a little shit, grit, and mother-wit.

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

Man hopes, genius creates

The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

Genius is the activity which repairs the decay of things.

Creativity is a continual surprise.

Surprise is where creativity comes in.

Me parece que los marcianos eran bastante ingenuos. —Sólo cuando les convenía. Renunciaron a empeñarse en destruirlo todo, humillarlo todo. Combinaron la religión, arte y ciencia, pues en verdad la ciencia no es más que la investigación de un milagro inexplicable, y el arte, la interpretación de ese milagro. No permitieron que la ciencia aplastara la belleza.

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility. [An anarchist]

you fellows had starved your imaginations to feed your bodies.

I defy the ingenuity of journalists to persuade their public that any given member of the proletariat can have a personal grievance against astronomy. Starvation itself could hardly be dragged in there - eh? And there are other advantages. The whole civilized world has heard of Greenwich... Yes, he continued, with a contemptuous smile, the blowing up of the first meridian is bound to raise a howl of execration.

With a little ingenuity and vision, he had made it all but impossible for anyone in the squadron to talk to him, which was just fine with everyone, he noticed, since no one wanted to talk to him anyway.

as pessoas com mentes manifestavam por vezes tendência para se tornar espertas.

Imagination is the mighty instrument used by great scientists, artists, physicists, inventors, architects, and mystics. When the world said, It is impossible; it can't be done, the man with imagination said, It is done! Through your imagination, you can also penetrate the depths of reality and reveal the secrets of nature.

There's a fine line between criminality and genius

Genius is Omniscience flowing into man. Genius is more than talent.