Quotes About Ingenuity

Sometimes a crazy idea can make something special.

Sometimes big problems are best solved with lots of small and creative solutions.

Desperation sometimes drives innovation.

Hard work isn't enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to scale a business is less reliant on brute force. It's actually one part determination, one part ingenuity, and one part laziness.

I do not live off canned soup.

We were shooting a scene of the Phoenix Ashram in South Africa, but the set was in India. All the donkeys in the vicinity were painted black and white to look like zebras in case one of them strayed into the scene so that it would look like South Africa.

I'm in all my films, I can't help it. I just jam myself in there if there's a space.

Be willing to work for nothing in things you think are stupid. Make work for yourself. Make your own luck. Don't complain. Hopefully, the work will find you if you are ready.

Then a genius has been born!

Candler—mixed with the secret formula was. . . IMAGINATION!

He had never heard that more gold has been mined from the brains of men than has ever been taken from the earth.

the greatest inventor who ever lived.

in Ovid, difficulty is what wakes up the genius (ingenium mala saepe movent)

it so happens that America is currently far, far more creative than these nations of museumgoers and equation solvers. It is also far more tolerant of bottom-up tinkering and undirected trial and error. And

A nerd is simply someone who thinks exceedingly inside the box.

The laser is a prime illustration of a tool made for a given purpose (actually no real purpose) that then found applications that were not even dreamed of at the time. It was a typical "solution looking for a problem.

It struck me how lacking in imagination we are:

The story of the wheel itself is even more humbling than that of the suitcase:

If it were known and obvious, then someone next door would have already come up with the idea and it would have become generic.

If you are an idea person, you do not have to work hard, only think intensely.

Lev smiles. Leave it to you to turn someone else's screwup into gold

The difference between you and me...is that when I look at the world, I see opportunity. When you look at the world, you're just trying to find a place to urinate.

We select and set aside as literature that which is original, the product of what we call genius.

sitting in front of the Golden Gate made me think that if we, meaning our culture, could make this bridge-sculpture right now, bad off and broke as we were, then surely we could do almost anything, and we could do it gracefully, powerfully, beautifully, and functionally.