Quotes About Ingenuity

Cleverness has a special piquancy when it blooms out of the fraying sleeve of failure.

I'm pretty nifty at thinking on my feet, even when I'm actually sitting down with a renter in my embrace, but this fellow's sudden appearance had me more than a little stumped

I was put in charge, made a general, and sent into Serbia, where, by dint of my own ingenuity, we served honorably but did not kill a soul. And that, believe me, is very hard with the Serbs, because they are very ingenious themselves, and they have a passion for martyrdom. I've been a field marshal for two years. I have so many medals that when I wear them I look like a window in a junk shop.

don't look to jump over seven-foot bars: I look around for one-foot bars that I can step over. —WARREN BUFFETT

Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Anything seemed possible if you had ingenuity, money, and tenacity. But the body doesn't play by those rules.

What's the use of crowbars? It's not crowbars that we need, it's intelligence and common sense

Il n'y a point de génie sans un grain de folie.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness…

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness

Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself.

Tom hated to admit defeat, even in matters far less important than this. He believed that all problems could be solved if they were tackled in the right way, with the right equipment. This was a challenge to his scientific ingenuity; the fact that there were many lives involved was immaterial. Dr. Tom Lawson had no great use for human beings, but he did respect the Universe. This was a private fight between him and It.

if it really was brilliant I'd have thought of it already.

I have taken to living by my wits.

So unworldly was he--or so capricious--that he frequently refused his help to the powerful and wealthy where the problem made no appeal to his sympathies, while he would devote weeks of most intense application to the affairs of some humble client whose case presented those strange and dramatic qualities which appealed to his imagination and challenged his ingenuity.

Alcuni individui, pur senza possedere il genio, hanno il notevole potere di stimolarlo.

As long as I have my trousers I have a hip-pocket, and as long as I have my hip-pocket I have something in it.

There were, it appeared, more ways to skin a Katz than one Ã¢â'¬Â¦

You can always make something out of nothing.

necessity is the mother of invention, then

Chinese wrote messages on fine silk, which was then scrunched into a tiny ball and covered in wax. The messenger would then swallow the ball of wax.

He said when you use your brain, no-one comes near you for ingenuity

a whole group of tech whizzes are

A man through wit May pass another's wisdom in the race.