Ingenuity Quotes

• Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  "War As I Knew It". Book by George S. Patton. Chapter "Reflections and Suggestions", 1947.

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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.

  Atul Gawande

  Trying, Doe, Genius

  Atul Gawande (2010). “Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance”, p.246, Profile Books

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• It is natural that we face obstacles in pursuit of our goals. But if we remain passive, making no effort to solve the problems we meet, conflicts will arise and hindrances will grow. Transforming these obstacles into opportunities is a challenge to our human ingenuity.

  Dalai Lama

  Opportunity, Goal, Effort

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

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Creativity, Simple, Ideas

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

  Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin

  Struggle, Levels, Inventiveness

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

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Justice, Liberty

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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  The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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• A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

  Douglas Adams

  Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.690, Pan Macmillan

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

  William J. Clinton

  Inspirational Life, Overcoming, Energy

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

  Arnold Bennett

  Money, Littles, Amusing

  Arnold Bennett (2012). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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• The best substitute for money is ingenuity.

  Patti Page

  Substitutes, Cleverness

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• Go looking for the best in people and you'll be amazed at how much talent, ingenuity, empathy and good you will find.

  Bob Burg

  People, Empathy, Talent

  Bob Burg, John David Mann (2007). “The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea”, p.16, Penguin

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• Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity.

  Terry Pratchett

  Rough Times, No Money

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Doubt, May, Enigma

  "The Gold-Bug" (1843).

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• Second, I believe in human ingenuity – that when we decide on a task to be done, no matter how daunting it may seem at the beginning, we are able to unleash human ingenuity and human innovative capacity that was unknown, and takes us to a solution.

  Christiana Figueres

  Believe, Tasks, Done

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• 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.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Power, Simple, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Best of Poe”, p.29, Prestwick House Inc

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• We've gone astray from first principles. We've lost sight of the rule that individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core of everything that we've accomplished. Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

  Ronald Reagan

  Running, Government, Sight

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.337, Best Books on

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Courage, Peace, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.81, A&C Black

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  President, May, Motive

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.477

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

  Douglas McGregor

  Average, Management, Workers

  Douglas McGregor, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld (2006). “The Human Side of Enterprise, Annotated Edition”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Men, Democracy

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• 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

  Exercise, Two, Intuition

  "Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals". Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Series 2, Volume 45, 1939.

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• Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Heart, Quality, Endurance

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1852). “The history of Henry Esmond, esq”, p.50

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• Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

  Ronald Reagan

  Running, Peace, War

  Ronald Reagan's Remarks at the National Conference of the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO, www.reaganfoundation.org. March 30, 1981.

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• Do not follow where the path may lead.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Graduation, Travel, Adventure

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