Quotes About Ingenuity

To genius life never grows commonplace.

You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life.

If you cannot get a job then make a living for yourself.

I believe when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade...and try to find someone whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

Don't just think out of the box, stand on the box to see new possibilities and opportunities in becoming distinguished.

You don't have to reinvent the wheel... just steal the hubcaps." ? Michael P. Naughton,

Without imagination, there would be no creativity. Without creativity, there would be nothing.

prolific inventor,

I may not be the strongest guy or the most well-armed, but you can put me in a room with a pencil and a piece of paper and I can kill anybody.

Of the latter, they cut each truck in two, shipped them into the secret field in two C-47 transports, then welded them together in the field. It was a model of American ingenuity, and by midsummer, the strip was up and working.

Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow. Genius

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

Edith's was a campaign waged with such cleverness and skill that he could find no rational grounds for complaint.

So powerful, in fact, is simple string in taming the world to human will and ingenuity that I suspect it to be the unseen weapon that allowed the human race to conquer the earth, that enabled us to move out into every econiche on the globe during the Upper Paleolithic. We could call it the String Revolution.

Moral: If at first you don't succeed, invent fire. Or hire a chef. Preferably one with imagination. Jane Yolen

Perhaps you're not crazy, but you're very creative.

What are wits for unless a man uses them?

As we talked, we realized that we actually improvise everything we do, from the way we walk down the street to the way we prepare a meal. Can you imagine speaking without improvising? Yet the word improvisation terrifies most people, musician and non-musician alike.

All is fish that comes to the net i.e. there is absolutely nothing in life that can be counted out as completely useless or worthless. In other words, you can and should take advantage of anything that comes your way or rather take advantage of all the opportunities that come your way. ~Emeasoba George

Uniqueness or originality is nothing else but doing ordinary things extraordinarily. And guess what! That is just what gives rise to excellence and profitability eventually. Thus, be and remain unique or original in all you do. ~Emeasoba George

Style isn't what you have---it's what you do with what you have.

Creativity is taking a simple thing and bringing it to life.

I like people who are always doing things that would never have occurred to me at that moment.