Quotes About Ingenuity

What some invent the rest enlarge.

WHAT MAKES A MAN,A MAN IS THE ABILITY TO SOLVE PROBLEMS AROUND HIM

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

when you were out of options, then you were using the wrong tactics? You had to bend the rules. Shift perspective—anything to find a way out of a hopeless situation.

As long as you're being a copycat, you will never be the best copycat.

When information is sticky, innovators tend to rely largely on information they already have in stock.

idea, he immediately sent a worker to an electrical supply

Our kitchens are filled with ghosts. You may not see them, but you could not cook as you do without their ingenuity: the potters who first enabled us to boil and stew; the knife forgers; the resourceful engineers who designed the first refrigerators; the pioneers of gas and electric ovens; the scale makers; the inventors of eggbeaters and peelers.

There are hundreds of millions of individuals who somehow swim against the tide of the dysfunctional modern food supply and feed themselves pretty well.

In one story, he describes a man who is blind in one eye, myopic in the other, too poor to buy eyeglasses, who wears only the frames, with no lenses. When asked why he replies: "It's better than nothing." As

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam,' I said which means, 'I'll either find a way or make one

there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact that you're making it up as you go along.

I'm always throwing out ideas, so it's not creativity, it's just volume.

There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.

The Double Cross idea had always been based on lateral thinking without boundaries, a willingness to contemplate plans that others would dismiss as unworkable or, frankly, barmy.

must be prepared to think outside the box,

Aunts, I have learned, never admit defeat. In the face of overwhelming forces, or incontestable facts, they simply change tack. Had Napoleon been an aunt, he would never have done anything so vulgar as to 'retreat' from Moscow. Rather, he would have framed his return to Paris casually as a question of clothing and etiquette, noting it was unseasonably cold for October and declaring that–like fish and family–armies of invasion go off after three days.

To cease to think creatively is to cease to live

You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.

Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'Tis the stone that will turn all your lead into gold.

persuaded, therefore, that ere long some ingenious

Always have to think like a guy with no food in his refrigerator.

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

If you build a better mousetrap, regardless of your marketing budget, the world will beat its own path to your door.