Ingenuity Quotes - Page 2

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

  Thomas Sowell

  Business, Requirements, Produce

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 8, 2012.

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• Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I spent in Prague as I most always did, when I was attacked by an illness never before experienced, which manifested itself in chilliness and painful weariness of the whole body. In order to ease my condition I took up Euclid's Elements and read for the first time his doctrine of ratio, which I found treated there in a manner entirely new to me. The ingenuity displayed in Euclid's presentation filled me with such vivid pleasure, that forthwith I felt as well as ever.

  Bernard Bolzano

  Pain, Recovery, Science

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• Go looking for conflict, and you'll find it. Go looking for people to take advantage of you, and they generally will. See the world as a dog-eat-dog place, and you'll always find a bigger dog looking at you as if you're his next meal. Go looking for the best in people, and you'll be amazed at how much talent, ingenuity, empathy, and good will you'll find. Ultimately, the world treats you more or less the way you expect to be treated.

  Bob Burg

  Dog, People, Empathy

  Bob Burg, John David Mann (2015). “The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea”, p.18, Penguin

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• I like challenges that test your ingenuity.

  Colin Baker

  Challenges, Tests

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• 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.

  Pliny the Elder

  Wine, Men, Water

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• 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.

  Jean Rostand

  Beautiful, Regret, Mistake

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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

  George Meany

  Doubt, Bills, Plumber

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• The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.

  Hannah More

  Self, Deception, Self Deception

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• Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never discover any inventions more beautiful, more simple or more practical than those of nature, because in her inventions there is nothing lacking and nothing superfluous; and she makes use of no counterpoise when she constructs the limbs of animals in such a way as to correspond to the motion of their bodies, but she puts into them the soul of the body.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beautiful, Nature, Science

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.971, Delphi Classics

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• 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 it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money.

  John Sayles

  Giving, Good Movie, Roger

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• Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Satyagraha, Force

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.77, A&C Black

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• Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.

  Winston Churchill

  Revenge, Rats, Certain

  Winston Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.88, A&C Black

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

  Julia Ward Howe

  Divine Wisdom, Theology, Humans

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• With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans.

  Jay Inslee

  Jobs, Technology, Order

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• Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

  Les Baxter

  Song, Imagination, Challenges

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• If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.

  Arlen Specter

  Country, Strong, Play

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• In this remarkable time for the world, I refuse to believe it's time to stop believing in the possibilities of our remarkable country. I refuse to accept the downsizing of the American Dream. I refuse to bet against American entrepreneurial spirit and American ingenuity.The competition's tough, and it requires us to be tougher - tough-minded, never hard hearted.

  John F. Kerry

  Dream, Country, Believe

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

  Pete Domenici

  Oil, Energy, Use

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• Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Men, Males, Gender

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• The question of how the ebb and flow of a highly developed mind can be catered to by a physical brain, and the related question of how the one impacts the other, are the hardest-ever challenges to human ingenuity and imagination.

  Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield

  Impact, Ebb And Flow, Imagination

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

  George D. Prentice

  Debt Free, People, Use

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• If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Inspiration, Creativity, Risk

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• Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe.

  George Pataki

  Change, Creativity, Character

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

  Sarah Palin

  Energy, Needs, Source

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

  Thomas Willis

  Broken Heart, Men, Parent

  "Psychological problems in mental deficiency" by Seymour B. Sarason, p. 211, 1969.

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