Quotes About Ingenuity

You're not going to tell me they built fifty-foot-high killer golems, are you? Only a man would think of that. It's our job, said Moist. If you don't think of fifty-foot-high killer golems first, someone else will.

Not craftsmen, my lord he said. I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible

This man was so absent-mindedly clever that he could paint pictures that didn't just follow you around the room but went home with you and did the washing-up.

Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that makes us human.

There had been times, over the past millenium, when he'd felt like sending a message back Below saying, Look, we may as well give up right now, we might as well shut down Dis and Pandemonium and everywhere and move up here, there's nothing we can do to them that they don't do to themselves and they do things we've never even though of, often involving electrodes. They've got what we lack. They've got imagination. And electricity, of course.

Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves.

Necessity starves on the stoop of invention.

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

I didn't grow up with money; I didn't come from a rich family. But what fashion gave me was an escape into a world of creativity: if I couldn't afford that Junior Gaultier jacket, then I'd get one from the market and customise it.

I don't think about doing new. I just do it.

Almost anything can be justified as a style of filmmaking if it works.

I just love his creativity; that's what I'm talking about as far as being unique and creative and different. Kanye is doing it.

I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.

Use your imagination. Look around the kitchen and see what you can use.

I do like to cook; I'm sort of a mad scientist in the kitchen.

My kitchen is limited at best. I have one drawer. But I make do with what I have; it's taught me to be super efficient in terms of how I clean and how I put things away.

Fashion wasn't a label back in the '70s. We made our own clothes because we had no money.

A fecking flamethrower! Why didn't I think of that? Best I came up with was a measly hair dryer.

A wise woman indiscriminately picked up all the tools others left lying around.

Whereas clarity and ingenuity are required for creating current and future state maps, focus and discipline are essential for successfully executing and sustaining improvement.

Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever.

I will either find a way, or make one.

Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?

Leonardo did not pursue science and engineering in order to dominate nature, as Francis Bacon would advocate a century later, but always tried to learn as much as possible from nature. He was in awe of the beauty he saw in the complexity of natural forms, patterns, and processes, and aware that nature's ingenuity was far superior to human design. Accordingly, he often used natural processes and structures as models for his own designs.