Quotes About Ingenuity

Even when they tell you "it can't be done, it's never been done, nobody's ever done it that way," all they're revealing about themselves is that they are limited, minimally-talented, inept, lazy to the point where they'll let the job walk out the door then have to stretch their imagination to figure out a way the job can be done, and they are not people you should be dealing with, because they can't solve their own problems, much less yours.

The inventor knows HOW to borrow.

they have repeatedly overcome or worked around the forces of the actual—inertia, stasis, entropy—to probe the realm of the possible.

Genius overcomes all obstacles.

But hell, you've gotta work with what you've got.

I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a stamp on an envelope straight. And I'm always dialling the wrong number. But I have come up with a few original cocktails that people seem to like.

One opposite of imagination is "efficiency.

I'll just come right out and say it, rich people have no imagination. They can't even scratch their own asses without a ruler and a flashlight.

Sumire frowned and sighed. "If they invent a car that runs on stupid jokes, you could go far.

But like most actions that rely on faith, it still took plenty of our own muscle and ingenuity.

Scientists could make a human, but they could not make an artist.

Despite the crapehangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands... with tools... with horse sense and science and engineering.

'The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.

What I often do is just think of a completely obtuse thing to do, almost the wrong thing to do. That often works because you start a different approach, something no one has tried.

There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

Can we achieve 140 mpg fuel economy? You bet. Just get the bureaucrats out of the way, and Yankee ingenuity will do the rest.

The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery.

We didn't have much money and my mom scrounged up $15 and bought us a surf board at a yard sale.

Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.

Each year, Labor Day gives us an opportunity to recognize the invaluable contributions that working men and women make to our nation, our economy and our collective prosperity. It gives us a chance to show gratitude for workers' grit, dedication, ingenuity and strength, which define our nation's character.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.

If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good?