Quotes About Ingenuity

When the ancient Egyptians finished building the pyramids, they had built the pyramids.

Artists! They were all crazy. In a good way, of course.

If you had duct tape, you were prepared for anything.

What can an artist use but materials, such as they are? What can he light but the short string of his gut, and when that's burnt out, any muck ready to hand?

The opening chapter was the book's unique selling point, the singular idea that had carried Darcy through last November, and Coleman had just come up with it off the top of his head.

Necessity is the mother of invention

It was way cool, being the one who did the math.

the city interface didn't care why people were talking about you—because you were talented or merely beautiful, ingenious or just crazy, concerned about the planet or outraged over nothing at all

I saw an old woman dressed in seatcovers, sewn into a dress, a man in a jacket made from a flag. It gave them an air of desperate grandeur, like guests at an asylum ball.

Every day Fu-shee, the smaller children, and I fan out in the hills around Green Dragon to strip trees of their bark and leaves, dig up roots and search for wild grass. We'll eat anything, and we have. But you can't eat a leather belt like it's a crisp cucumber. You soak it, boil it, and chew on it for days.

As we'll see, the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door.

What's a bootstrapper to do? You have to go where the other guys can't. Take advantage of what you have so that you can beat the competition with what they don't.

brainstorming

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done. That would be you.

Moore's law is a law not of nature, but of human ingenuity.

We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.

Who the hell thought of that? Probably the same sick SOB who saw a chicken shoot an egg out of its nether region and said, "Hey, y'all, I think I'm gonna dry that up and eat it. Wish me luck. If I get sick from it, someone fetch a doctor."' – Sundown

In my life I have always found ways of dealing with a situation.

great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life.

Life is composed of different inventions.

Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.

We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies--in the minds of those closest to the work. It's been there in front of our noses all along while we've been running around chasing robots and reading books on how to become Japanese--or at least manage like them.

Very impressive. Where did you learn that?" Made it up just now.

Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire!