Ingenuity Quotes

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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 to try.

Boxing is a contest of character and ingenuity. The boxer with more will, determination, desire, and intelligence is always the one who comes out the victor.

The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management.

Entrepreneurs are never satisfied. They want to do things better. They strive for perfection and use all the ingenuity to their command to achieve it.

Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.

I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.

The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.

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

If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.

Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.

It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful.

The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.

For every Seaman of Industry and Ingenuity, is not only a Navigator, but a Merchant, and also a Soldier.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.

The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.

It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.

Making the simple complex doesn't take ingenuity. Making the complex simple, now, that's ingenuity!

Of all evil-doers, the American is most to be feared. He uses more ingenuity in the planning of his projects and will take greater risks in carrying them out than any other malefactor on earth.

The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

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

There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.

When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one cannot make certain of the truth of their reports.

The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.

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.

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

Ingenuity and incongruity always cheer me up.

As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity.

Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, lets use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.

Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them.

Our way lies not in human ingenuity, but in a return to God.

Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.

The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.

I like challenges that test your ingenuity.

....it cannot be called ingenuity to kill one's fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; by these means one can aquire power but not glory.

Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high.

We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.

That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing; the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the first opportunity that characterizes the American soldier.

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

What a glorious legacy of faith, courage, and ingenuity those noble early Mormon pioneers have left for us to build upon. My admiration for them deepens the longer I live.

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