Quotes About Ingenuity

Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.

Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.

A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.

A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them.

Humans transform the world through our creative technologies, and we cannot survive without them.

It should puzzle us more than it does that one of the greatest foci of human ingenuity and concentrated effort over the past millennia has been the problem of how to get drunk.

You cannot make chicken salad out of Chicken shit.

What mean we by genius, but the power of accomplishing great things without the means generally reputed necessary to that end?

Like hungry chickens, when we cannot be fed what we need, we feed ourselves what we can find.

Geniuses are their own saviors.

The defining factor [for success] is never resources; it's resourcefulness.

A person who thinks and does work like others only may get merely monetary things called success, but he who does think and works differently from others in life is likely to gain an excellence.

Real people conceive originality then think, write but never read of others' posts to copy to follow and the copycats follow exactly the opposite direction i.e. read of others' posts, write but never think and conceive originality.

Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvelous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea.

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

If by some unimaginable process works of beauty could be produced by machinery, as a symmetrical color pattern is produced by a kaleidoscope, we might think them beautiful till we knew their origin, after which we should be rather disposed to describe them as ingenious.

HLADE'S LAW: If you have a difficult task give it to a lazy man — he will find an easier way to do it.

Yes, the pyramids have been built, but if you give me 300,000 disciplined men and give me 30 years, I could build a bigger one.

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter.

Every quarter, we give an award for a breakthrough idea even if it doesn't make it to market.

A word of advice for all the aspiring drag queens out there: be resourceful.

As drag queens, you constantly have to be coming up with, 'What's the thing no one's ever seen before?'