Quotes About Ingenuity

All is fish that cometh to net.

The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.

It's as if people used the invention

Askade took the battertoast, looked at it blearily. "I can't rewire it into a death ray without some extra parts," he said, and took a bite. "Hm. Tastes okay. What's the problem?

A person should be wise enough to come up with their own quotes

Whenever they say it can't be done, remind them that they make a jellybean that tastes exactly like popcorn.

He grabs ropes, furs, blankets, a hatchet, and carrots. Carrots? Okay, so he likes vegetables.

And then I had my greatest stroke of genius since that ham sandwich with pickles that time.

Sometimes, laziness was the next best thing to genius.

Hey, I'd found an option that was even less appealing that starving to death. Let's hear it for human ingenuity!

People would eat a boot if it was home made.

We have, all of us, invented things that others have beat us to: walking upright, a certain sort of sandwich involving avocado and an onion roll, a minty sweet cocktail, ourselves, romantic love, human life.

I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.

human ingenuity will find a way to defy government rules and regulations, such as customs tariffs, when they fly in the face of self-interest.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Arthur M. Winfield

Qué italiano es eso, ¿no le parece?… Hacer cosas que otros nunca harían porque son incapaces de imaginarlas.

Qué italiano es eso, ¿no le parece?… Hacer cosas que otros nunca harían porque son incapaces de imaginarlas. Me

Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.

Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare.

I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within.

Rarely, someone comes around that is influenced by so many things but is looking for a new way to do something.

Everything has been thought of before... the real problem is to think of it again.

Engineers and entrepreneurs are fundamentally dissatisfied with the way the world is and want to make it better. There are so many things you could do with technology if you can match it up with real problems.