Quotes About Ingenuity

She worked the dead bolt first. She slid a wrench into the keyhole, twisted it to keep tension, then used the pick to rake the inside of the cylinder. When she felt the pins slip, she turned the wrench farther. The lock clicked open. The knob was easier. When she was done, she shut the penlight off, opened the door, felt it catch against a chain. She

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

Vision without execution is hallucination. .. Skill without imagination is barren. Leonardo [da Vinci] knew how to marry observation and imagination, which made him history's consummate innovator.

Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.

We had money, but there was nothing to buy. Instead, my husband would collect grass and leaves and we'd fry them in olive oil.

A creative mind is never empty.

Repeating what others do just shows me that there is no intelligent life on Earth. The lamp exists, but without light (energy) it is useless.

The scarecrow makes a way of life out of rags.?

People were so cheap there... they ate beans to save on bubble bath.

The big difference between a friend and an inventor is that an inventor works.

And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.

Singles also have an endearing ability to get out of their own way: Imagine trying to extend "Pappa-Oom-Mow-Mow" for an entire album (and one thing you'll have imagined is a central dilemma of some of today's best recordmakers).

That was when I knew him before, you understand, when he could just pull stuff like that out of his, uh, hat.

Where other people will see obstacles, even blank walls, you'll soon start to see pathways you can use to get where you want to go. It's awesome.

Genius is the ability to see past the limitations that most of us are faced with, and accomplish the impossible.

You got the feeling this wasn't a desert because the people didn't allow it to be, but whatever the earth gave, it gave grudgingly.

When life gives you lemons you make lemonade. I have several stands.

Most of my creativity happens on the spot no matter where I am

Can be physical, mental, trade skills, wit, savviness etc. All of us each have our own unique ingredients within us and in our lives just waiting to be used for something greater then ourselves

As the saying goes cut off the head of the snake another one grows in its place, so why cut off the head instead just throw the snake in a frying pan and eat the snake

Minho] pulled one of his knives from a pocket and, without missing a beat, cut a big piece of ivy off the wall. He threw it on the ground behind him and kept running. "Bread crumbs?" Thomas asked, the old fairy tale popping into his mind. Such odd glimpses of his past had almost stopped surprising him. "Bread crumbs," Minho replied. "I'm Hansel, you're Gretel.

Rashers, me heart, if it was raining soup, you'd have nothing but a fork.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

there's one thing I'm good at, it's lying on my feet. It's sort of a gift I have.