Quotes About Ingenuity

Sadie knew that the key to making a video game on limited resources was to make the limitations part of the style.

Geeky people often have. . . . a mind with its own heartbeat.

The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.

Successful entrepreneurs take who they are and what they already know and create surprising combinations.

a capacity for innovation is the hallmark of our species. Each of us was born to create—whether it's landscaping a garden, writing a blog, composing a photograph, inventing a recipe, developing an app, or starting a business.

In the age of upheaval, the quantities of foresight and ingenuity required to run a large organization exceed the abilities of any single human being or small team—and the bar keeps going up. Simply put, bureaucratic structures ask more of leaders than they can deliver.

If you have to beg, then beg. If you have to barter, then barter. If you have to be creative, then be creative. Just don't be a victim of your circumstance.

A Great Answer is essentially a new answer. It

I do not think I have seen anyone so beautiful; I was enchanted by her manner and her wit, at once so masked, so ingenuous and so penetrating. But one felt a terrible unreality about her — as if talking to someone under water. Bobby and I engaged in mock competition for her; she was most agreeable to him and pleasant to me, but one never felt her to be wholly engaged. She receded into her own glittering mist.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.

Work smarter, not harder," was Scrooge's motto, and his stories were full of inventive schemes that, more often than not, made him even richer and more successful. In Scrooge's world, hard work paid off, yes — but so did cleverness and a desire to do something in a way no one had ever thought of before.

She walked to the rear door and took out a bobby pin from her pocket. Hugo watched as she fiddled with the pin inside the lock until it clicked and the door opened. "How did you learn to do that?" asked Hugo. "Books," answered Isabelle.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

Our job is to invent new things. It's not to know everything.

If the hardtack got moldy it was usually thrown away as inedible, but if it just got weevily it was issued anyway. Heating it at the fire would drive the weevils out; more impatient soldiers simply ate it in the dark and tried not to think about it.

The world would not have advanced very far had it not been for the contributions of its dreamers. It would never have gained its steamboat, nor its Atlantic cable, nor its wireless telegraph, nor its electric light. It would never have acquired any really great enterprise. For a little enterprise may be rustled and worried into being: but a really great program or movement or business must be dreamed.

Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices

The creations of genius always seem like miracles, because they are, for the most part, created far out of the reach of observation.

When two men are together, one of them may see some opportunity which the other has not caught sight of; if a man is alone he is less full of resource, and his wit is weaker.

I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience... War is not inevitable, however persistent it is, however long a history it has in human affairs. It does not come out of some instinctive human need. It is manufactured by political leaders, who then must make a tremendous effort--by enticement, by propaganda, by coercion--to mobilize a normally reluctant population to go to war.

A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.

Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it been clever? Yes, it had.

Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.