Quotes About Ingenuity

I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

I ad lib. I've gotta bring my own into it.

I have this belief that if you have an idea, and you have to write it down to remember it, then it can't be a great idea.

I've always had great ideas.

The great thing about 'Breaking Bad' was they were able to write themselves out of anything.

You know what's a great way of tricking people into thinking you're a genius? Write a show about geniuses!

No, our greatness does not come from our government.

I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I'd been given, not made up out of whole cloth.

I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.

In the past, when I lacked designer duds, I simply relied on my hot glue gun.

He had done food.

The difference between being smart and being really smart is looking at things in a way no one would ever expect.

My name is Brian Robeson,' he said. Then he saw that his stew was done, the peach whip almost done, and he waved to it with his hand. 'Would you like something to eat?

There is also something of the arrogant vain youth in him; [...] he loves nothing more than to reveal the truly prodigious ingenuity of his mind.

Most jobs I've had have been variations on hunter-gatherer and farmer. I was one of the first to say Hey, if we grow our own food, we won't have to hunt it down all the time. Mostly, I was just tired of moving around constantly, but you have to admit it was a pretty good idea.)

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want. And if they can't find them, make them.

Genius consisting neither in self-conceit nor in humilty, but in a power to making or do, not anything in general, but something in particular.

Persecution and revenge, like courtship and toadyism, will not prosper without a considerable expenditure of time and ingenuity

As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity.

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

I'm wondering how people are so creative, and how many things were born out of and inspired by the Cube.

Me and my two brothers painted a football pitch and used the net from scaffolding for goals with bits of wood, although they were burnt down in the end.

I did not play with dolls. I played with a little hammer, paint and wood.

We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour.