Quotes About Ingenuity

Gary Ross is amazing. He's just - he always has a billion ideas of what he wants, but has a very clear perspective also; he just makes it work. He really does. He's trying different things and making everything look amazing.

I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

I wanna take what I'm doing and create something around it as opposed to trying to fit into someone else's world.

We tied the milk crates on each end of the fence, and we had our own milk crate basketball pickup game, and it was a good time 'cause we could jump off the fence and dunk the basketball. You had to be creative in order to play, and I wanted to play.

I'm a big kid, I'm a kid at heart, so I still love the classic family films, such as the great Warner Bros film 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' - not the remake, but the original. It's still one of the best movies, hands down, ever made, and of course that goes back to the ingenuity of the characters and the storyline.

Operation Warp Speed should fill us with pride about American prowess and ingenuity. It is a showcase of our scientific, military and industrial might.

Back in the days of world wars, American companies didn't think twice about pitching in to help fight the enemy. Car companies helped bolster tanks, food companies created rations - sometimes they had to do it, but no one had to twist their arm.

It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.

I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing is problem-solving.

I know what it's like to wash my clothes in a Chevron station.

No electricity, no hot water, no heat - at times, we struggled. We'd wake up in the morning and wash with water we heated on a hot plate. And we'd go to bed at night wearing skull caps, sweat shirts, and gloves.

The most useful virtues, for one who walked on, were flexibility and a willingness to improvise.

Finding nothing, she went back inside and MacGyvered a reflector using pieces of cardboard covered with tinfoil.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

You know, it is very simple to be a genius. All you have to do is think for yourself.

Edison's admirers endowed him with fantastical powers that would permit him to invent anything he wished (one

Graham conveys the sense that good ideas are plentiful, waiting for someone to come along and pluck them off the ground. "There's a bunch of things like that," he says.

Such was the quality of goldsmithery that a Dutch captain would write: "The thread and texture of their hatbands and chaining is so fine that … our ablest European artists would find it difficult to imitate them.

Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources.

If you can find an opening, you can probably find a way to float through it.

It just proves that if you can find an opening, you can probably find a way to float through it.

I know you're smart. But everyone here is smart. Smart isn't enough.

Guys and their initiative - sometimes that too is like extracting meat from the armature of a crab.