Quotes of Ingenuity - somelinesforyou

“ It is the risk element which ensures security. Risk brings out the ingenuity and resourcefulness which ensure success. ”

- Robert Rawls

“ The chief enemy of creativity is good taste. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity. ”

- Arnold Bennett

“ Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. ”

- Chuck Jones

“ It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life. ”

- Julius Caesar

“ I do not seek. I find. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself. ”

- Carl Gustav Jung

“ There was a lot of tabloid journalism about my supposed sex addiction. Bullshit. It's all bullshit. I mean, come on, I never pretended to be a saint. But give me a break. ”

- Michael Douglas

“ If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism. ”

- Thomas Sowell

“ They were like kids in a sandbox. It was a great feeling watching their creativity spread to everyone. ”

- Brittany Murphy

“ It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma… which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve. ”

- Edgar Allen Poe

“ The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead. ”

- William C. Menninger

“ Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action. ”

- Harold Rosenberg

“ A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ”

- George S. Patton

“ The ingenuity of the device blinds us to its utter uselessness. ”

- Anonymous

“ A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind. ”

- Jean Rostand

“ Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools. ”

- Gene Brown

“ Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles. ”

- Bob Richards

“ Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. ”

- George Dennison Prentice

“ The handout and the spokesman threaten our diligence, our ingenuity, our skepticism, our zeal. For zealots we must be. Not for a cause. For facts and for truth - and all of the truth. ”

- Frank H. Bartholomew

“ The world today has a strong democratic core shaped by American ingenuity, sacrifice, and spirit. ”

- John F. Kerry

“ Anybody who has any doubt about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one. ”

- George Meany

“ With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a crystal set and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ Cleverness is not wisdom. ”

- Euripides

“ Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ”

- Scott Adams

“ Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare. ”

- George Bernard Shaw
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