Quotes About Ingenuity

I'm really impressed every time Kanye comes to perform at 'SNL' because he finds a new way to make that space work for him.

A falta de educação, a ignorância, a simplicidade de espírito, a franqueza aliam-se em geral à ingenuidade. A curiosidade, a sutileza, o saber acarretam a malícia. A humildade, o temor, a obediência, a bondade elevada até a fraqueza e que constitui o alicerce sobre o qual assenta a conservação da sociedade humana, são peculiares a uma alma vazia, dócil, e presumindo pouco de si.

Si una idea no parece absurda de entrada, pocas esperanzas hay para ella. ALBERT EINSTEIN

Y es que las preguntas verdaderamente serias son aquellas que pueden ser formuladas hasta por un niño. Sólo las preguntas más ingenuas son verdaderamente serias. Son preguntas que no tienen respuesta. Una pregunta que no tiene respuesta es un barrera que no puede atravesarse. Dicho de otro modo: precisamente las preguntas que no tienen respuesta son las que determinan las posibilidades del ser humano, son las que trazan las fronteras de la existencia del hombre.

Las preguntas verdaderamente serias son aquéllas que pueden ser formuladas hasta por un niño. Sólo las preguntas más ingenuas son verdaderamente serias. Son preguntas que no tienen respuesta. Una pregunta que no tiene respuesta es una barrera que no puede atravesarse. Dicho de otro modo: precisamente las preguntas que no tienen respuesta son las que determinan las posibilidades del ser humano, son las que trazan las fronteras de la existencia del hombre.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door

When opportunity doesn't knock, create a door

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.

with no tools?

You got to figure out how to eat your snack while your elbows are touching. You got to learn how to twist your little plastic utensil.

Imagination is more important than facts. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Do What You Can, with What You Have, Right Where You Are

It seemed certain now that small could defeat big. All it took was brains and skills and heart and a perfect plan.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. As quoted in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989)

the proposition that all mankind's creations should be appraised not just for their beauty or ingenuity, but for what they revealed about the mystery of the human mind.

T]he creativity of the human creature is such that genuinely new realities are regularly brought into being.

If you think a hammer is the only way to hammer / A nail, you ain't thought of the nail correctly.

When you are facing superior strength, you must use your wits.

Then you understand the wide range of the totally new and unexpected creations they can sometimes come up with. Most people's minds travel along the same road traveled by everyone else, never straying off the route of conventional wisdom. Makers know no such boundaries. They have a rare ability to make their own roads of thought. Their minds venture through the wilderness of all that exists, combining random bits of knowledge in ways that have never been imagined before.

he had created a solution where it had never before existed, or even been imagined.

That's a maker," Isidore said. "That's the way they are. Creativity in large and small ways defines their nature in everything they do.

Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.