quotes about Ingenuity
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You have to, in some ways, trust in the human spirit and in human ingenuity.
-- Ariel Garten -
There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it.
-- Charles de Saint-Evremond -
The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.
-- Donald BarthelmeSource : 1972 Sadness,'Daumier'.
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The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management.
-- Douglas McGregorSource : Douglas McGregor, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld (2006). “The Human Side of Enterprise, Annotated Edition”, McGraw Hill Professional
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Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high.
-- Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin -
Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
-- Gene Brown -
Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.
-- George Meany -
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
-- Joseph Addison -
Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.
-- Julia Ward Howe -
The best substitute for money is ingenuity ...
-- Patti Page -
Ingenuity and incongruity always cheer me up.
-- Terry Pratchett -
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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.
-- Theodore Dalrymple -
We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.
-- Will EisnerSource : Will Eisner, John B. Cooke (2005). “Will Eisner”
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I like a woman who has both maturity and ingenuity. This comes under the heading of femininity.
-- Laurence Harvey -