Quotes about Ingenuity

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!

However much human ingenuity may increase the treasures which nature provides for the satisfaction of human needs, they can never be sufficient to satisfy all human wants; for man, unlike other creatures, is gifted and cursed with an imagination which extends his appetites beyond the requirements of subsistence. Human

An ingenious man can hardly stay with a people against their will; and a sincere man can more hardly, for any interest of his own, remain in a place where he is likely to be unprofitable, to hinder the good which they might receive from another man, who hath the advantage of a greater interest in their estimation and affection.

I worked hard and smarter than most people in the businesses I have been in.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.

Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.

Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

With a little ingenuity and vision, he had made it all but impossible for anyone in the squadron to talk to him, which was just fine with everyone, he noticed, since no one wanted to talk to him anyway.