Quotes About Ingenuity

Boredom, like necessity, is very often the mother of invention.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it. What another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

There is only one answer to destruc-tiveness and that is creativity.

If you are being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.

If there's no bread, cakes are very good.

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.

Great ideas are not charitable.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

I don't come up with ideas in a test tube; I come up with ideas by breaking test tubes. That's how I've always been.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

So I turned these sort of deficiencies into a, a workable thing if you understand what I mean.

Turning nothing into a business is cool.

Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.

There are no gatekeepers. So all the things we want people to cast us in, we can just make ourselves.

The reality is, is that we love competition, at Apple. We think it makes us all better. But we want people to invent their own stuff.

I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.

The truth is, I just want do things that are original and throw an original spin on them.

We can all do better. America is an entrepreneurial society. We had entrepreneurs who started our country. And they want us to think in fresh, new, different ways all of the time.

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.