Quotes about ingenuity

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 ha

We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.

We've got facts," they say. But facts aren't everything; at least half the battle consists in how one makes use of them!

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

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

Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

A blind ingenuity goes nowhere

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

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

Motherhood is a blissful chain...I have a mother - my precious gift...I am a mother - the best of my kind!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.