Quotes About Ingenuity

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

They did what soldiers always do. They improvised.

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

Varias veces he sido censurado por faltas que mi censor no tuvo el ingenio o la energía de cometer.

Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.

One of the facets of extreme originality is not to regard as obvious the things that lesser minds call obvious,

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two faculties, which we may call intuition and ingenuity,

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

The most precious resource in the world economy is human genius.

The force driving the Israelis decisively out of their socialist past into the modern world of finance was the ingenuity of Netanyahu.

Shaul is sure that Israel's test of survival, daily undergone, is the secret of Israeli enterprise. "When you're concerned about your survival, every day, you think outside of the box

I once took a city with five men and a lame goat. If I can do that, you can convince the necromancers to pledge themselves to you. Do this or die.

If you remove adversity, you remove ingenuity and creativity with it. There is no need to strive to make something beautiful or better if it already is.

I lit another cigarette and wondered distantly how I would get through the day. It was a problem demanding some ingenuity.

He had calling cards with his family crest on them and respected all the known rules of urbanity as well as some of his own invention, such as eating artichokes with tongs, which provoked general stupefaction.

maestro, an honorary title equivalent to licenciado, our designation for almost anyone who has graduated from college. With pliers and some wire, this fellow can fix anything from a lavatory to an airplane turbine: his creativity and daring are boundless.

My grandfather was an exception among Chileans because no man from the middle class up knows how to decipher a manual, nor does he dirty his hands with motor oil—that's what maestros are for; they can improvise ingenious solutions with the most modest resources and a minimum of fuss.

We made 'Pieces' in Cleveland with zero connections to the film business. Absolutely zero.

You get really scrappy when you're making things for zero dollars, and you just have to keep thinking like that. It's not like, 'Oh, we now have a little bit more money, let's do things differently.' If you just keep boiling it down to the simplest possible way to make it, I think that always ends up being the best.

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor, magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and 20 or 30 billion dollars and, vroom! There he is, up on a rock, a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

Develop an infallible technique and then place yourself at the mercy of inspiration.

Boredom is simply the lack of imagination.