Quotes About Ingenuity

butcher, baker, fusion-reactor maker.

and go looking for a potted plant that appears hardy enough to survive being irrigated with the stuff.

Only then will her father's geas allow her to turn her ingenuity to more urgent priorities—such as saving herself from her stepmother's murderous attention, partying with cute boy, and performing in Dracula at Whitby.

Creativity consists of coming up with many ideas, not just that one great idea.

Eneke the bird was asked why he was always on the wing and he replied: 'Men have learnt to shoot without missing their mark and I have learnt to fly without perching on a twig.'

The future belongs to the puzzle solvers.

What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.

My personal mission has always been to empower people to be creative. But the Holy Grail of a tinkerer is to make something that makes something.

That's the beautiful thing about mixed martial arts - and I'll tell people that - you have to think outside of the box.

You have to be very fast-thinking, creative, and mobile. It is key to making a business move.

Gromit was the name of a cat. When I started modeling the cat I just didn't feel it was quite right, so I made it into a dog because he could have a bigger nose and bigger, longer legs.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

I would love to just continue playing characters that break the mold. I like making interesting decisions when playing characters, so, taking something that would seem one way and then playing it a different way.

'MacGruber' came to life mostly because we just liked saying 'MacGyver.' 'MacGyver' this. 'MacGyver' that. It's a great word.

Getting caught is the mother of invention.

wanted to build a toaster from scratch. He started by taking apart a

We can make two predictions, though. First, the more human inventiveness we encourage, the better that's likely to work out for us.

Typically, everyone in the family went to work wherever they could. Young Lloyd sold newspapers, sacked groceries in the local market, and ran the projector at the movie theater. When he wanted to join the Boy Scouts, a county official lent him the fifty cents for the admission fee. He didn't wear shoes in the summer so that he could have a decent pair in the winter.

Linus Pauling famously said, "If you want a good idea, start with a lot of ideas.

InnoCentive.

being creative doesn't have to mean starting from scratch or being the sole originator—it's about adding what you can, about making a creative contribution.

She had arrived in dirty rags and had cooked up a striking outfit for herself, out of relief donations

But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.

Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough.