Ingenuity Quotes

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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. — George S. Patton
The way to an American economic comeback, the way to help those out of work today find a paycheck, is to unleash the forces of… — Rob Portman
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… — Jean Rostand
Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked… — John Sayles
Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets. — Thomas Sowell
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. — Alan Turing
If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and… — Margaret Heffernan
We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems. — Will Eisner
Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender. Shucked and boiled… — Rex Stout
Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness… — Atul Gawande
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets… — John Dewey
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am enthusiastic over humanityâ€™s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano… — R. Buckminster Fuller
How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew… — Graham Greene
Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects around… — Loren Eiseley
We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage.... Unless we can make the philosophic foundations… — Friedrich August von Hayek
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all… — John Kenneth Galbraith
But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be… — Muriel Barbery
She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of… — Colum McCann
The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all… — H.G. Wells

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