Ingenuity Quotes

Yes! He says. Fear is an excellent motivator. I find that it really brings out the true ingenuity of a creature.

~ M.d. Elster

She watched the tunnels as they flowed past: bare walls of concrete, a net of pipes and wires, a web of rails that went off into black holes where green and red lights hung as distant drops of color. There was nothing else to dilute it, so that one could admire naked purpose and the ingenuity that had achieved it.

~ Ayn Rand

I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience...War is not inevitable, however persistent it is, however long a history it has in human affairs. It does not come out of some instinctive human need. It is manufactured by political leaders, who then must make a tremendous effort--by enticement, by propaganda, by coercion--to mobilize a normally reluctant population to go to war.

~ Howard Zinn

The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.

~ Oliver Demille

Yet human intelligence has another force, too: the sense of urgency that gives human smarts their drive. Perhaps our intelligence is not just ended by our mortality; to a great degree, it is our mortality.

~ Adam Gopnik

Geniuses’ steps take you higher than talent’s leaps.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A girl got kicked out of the swimming hole today. Inge Hachmann. They said they wouldn’t let us swim with a half-breed. Unsanitary. A half-breed, Werner. Aren’t we half-breeds too? Aren’t we half our mother, half our father?

~ Anthony Doerr

You do everything by the book, like everybody else, you get the same results s everybody else.

~ Jim Butcher

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but ingenuity is the bombshell of success

~ Phillip Gary Smith

Ingenuity and creativity, even for a defeating case of two steps forward and one backward, applied strategically can covert a loss into gain.

~ Priyavrat Thareja

When there is silence, Give your voice. When there is darkness, Shine your light. When there is desperation, Offer hope.

~ Tim Fargo

Successful continual learning means maintaining a balance and variety of success-oriented attributes, the most prominent being awareness, confidence, persistence, determination, courage, and focus. But curiosity, ingenuity, and creativity may be even more important as it is these traits that fuel the desire to continue to question and challenge the status quo.

~ Lorii Myers

I would be dreadfully remiss not to think that God would painstakingly craft something an intimately ingenious and inexplicably intricate as my life, and that by virtue of such sheer brilliance I should not examine it with the greatest precision and unleash it with the fullest abandon.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A loving mother makes sacrifices for peace and laughter to reign in her home and family.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

A true mother is known for her compassion, love and passion; she is everly dedicated to her calling.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

A Godly mother`s seed of faith yields a bounty of faithfulness.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

A wholesome mother knows the software to delete, download, upgrade and upload for the best results.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children, her seed of love produces a harvest of trust.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

A praying mother symbolizes grace, strength and wisdom; she is an icon of productivity and ingenuity.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

A mother`s job is not complete till she has taught and imbibed God`s Words, and principles into her kids.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course, always charting new course for her loved ones.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

I love skyscrapers. Visiting cities lush with tall buildings has always been a treat for me. The implications of these immense towers are tremendous - a representation of the power of mind over matter. It never ceases to amaze me that within our minds exist the power to transform earthly materials into these colossal giants. For me, a walk among skyscrapers is a pleasant reminder of the boundless potential of human thought.

~ Todd William

Happenstance is the myth of the simple mind, for it is the deliberate genius of God that what appears entirely disjointed always reveals itself to be stunningly seamless. And it is in reflecting on such stunning ingenuity that our faith becomes seamless.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

And yet. And yet. If asked - if pressed - Honora would have to say she is strangely content. It's an odd feeling that she cannot describe to anyone - not to her mother and certainly not to Sexton, whose unhappiness seems to have no bounds, whose unhappiness is defined now by what he does not have, which is almost everything. He will always, in his mind, be the salesman who no longer has anything to sell. A man who longs for the open road but who cannot ever take it. Whereas Honora, oddly, now has more purpose than she ever did before. She is a dutiful wife who tends to her husband in spite of his weaknesses. She is a woman with ingenuity. She is a woman without illusions. She is a woman who, above all, is too busy trying to make a go of it to fret about her marriage.

~ Anita Shreve

You won't change anything significant in the world if you try to be like it. Change comes when you do something different.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

~ Steve Jobs

Ingenuity is the ability to solve difficult problems, often in an original and creative way.

~ Pearl Zhu

Men are creatures of invention and are usually determined not to accept no for an answer.

~ Mario Stinger

Success doesn't just happen. It is a product of hard work, grit and ingenuity.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.

~ Will Eisner

Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.

~ Bob Richards