Quotes About Ingenuity

Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others.

With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.

Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.

use your brain as cleverly as you use your hips and mouth.

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.

I felt joined to all the men and women across cultures down through the ages who'd done something useful with their hands, who'd made essential things from whatever was in front of them.

Curiosity is straight fire for creativity.

Did you ever stop to consider the person who first discovered milk? It took a lot of nerve to be the first man to pull on a cow's nipple and drink whatever came out.

could a Wal-Mart-type story still occur in this day and age? My answer is of course it could happen again. Somewhere out there right now there's someone—probably hundreds of thousands of someones—with good enough ideas to go all the way.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

To be inventive, to have ideas, is an organic part of being talented.

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call it chicken salad

Conquered people tend to be witty.

It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts. Then it was in the line of human advance that Einhorn could do so much.

all the ingenuity of mankind, or as M. Yermelov used to say, intellect without soul, was turned loose—the will of the insane to suffer pouring into erotic channels.

AM fascinated by the profusion and ingenuity of Jewish ideas on the future of Israel.

How did people steal before computers? - Dogbert

The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving…conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity.

You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.

These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.