Ingenuity Quotes - Page 10

• Though it's marvelously entertaining, and I had fantastic fun writing the book, it's not terribly easily, the material, and it's not all that familiar...although we think it is familiar. The processes of the wonderful narratives are very intricate. It's about the charm - the spellbinding charm - of ingenuity, and it's not so easy to remember the plots or the structure or even the names.

  Marina Warner

  Fun, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think what you have inside reflects very much in your face, in your expression. If you can find a kind of equilibrium in life, you never really get old, because you have that kind of ingenuity and innocence inside that gives you that brightness and that glint in your eye that generally, getting older, you lose.

  Sophia Loren

  Eye, Thinking, Expression

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.

  John Calvin

  Spiritual, Nature, Men

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Law Vol. 2”, p.132, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I was fortunate enough to take classes with Mel Powell at Yale University as well as a semester with Sam Adler at the Eastman School of Music. From Mel I learned to appreciate improvisatory ingenuity and from Sam rhythmic athleticism.

  Barbara Harbach

  School, Appreciate, Enough

  Source: www.barbaraharbach.com

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• Little of beauty has America given the world save the rude grandeur God himself stamped on her bosom; the human spirit in this new world has expressed itself in vigor and ingenuity rather than in beauty.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  America, Rude, Vigor

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2016). “The Souls of Black Folk”, p.207, First Avenue Editions

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• Anybody who is capable of doing terrible things, you don't want them out in the world, but you can't help but respect their ingenuity and their savvy and their intelligence as they go about their dastardly deeds.

  Bryan Fuller

  World, Deeds, Want

  "Homoerotic Charge of 'Hannibal'". Interview with Jim Halterman, www.newnownext.com. April 22, 2014.

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• Seeing Pretty Little Liars fans adapt and create their own stories is both exciting and flattering and I think what Amazon Publishing is offering through Kindle Worlds is a great way to reward their ingenuity.

  Sara Shepard

  Liars, Thinking, Offering

  "Amazon licenses fan fiction ebooks" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2013.

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• If I were sure I would pass the physicals, I would be on the next space shuttle to Mars or some other planet. I'll leave the calculations and the navigational tasks to you while I bask in your ingenuity. Find me a place in the capsule and watch me outdo Michael Jackson's moonwalk to the music of the spheres.

  Wole Soyinka

  Watch Me, Find Me

  Source: www.lindau-nobel.org

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• I think we ought to decide that man-hating is not only respectable but honorable. To be a misandrist a woman needs considerable ingenuity, originality, and resilience. A misogynist requires no such resources.

  Joanna Russ

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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• God warned Israel, "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it" (Ex. 20:25). To pollute something is to make it ordinary. God insists that any approach crafted by human ingenuity will produce a worship system just like all the pagan systems in the world. In other words, it will be common or profane - just like everyone else's paganism.

  Max Anders

  Israel, Tools, World

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• You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Self, Deception, Trying

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• I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.

  William Cowper

  Sound, Tasks, Venture

  William Cowper (1851). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.379

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• Most of the people I've been fortunate enough to work with all share the same passion for creativity, for ingenuity, for playing make-believe and really just having fun. It doesn't matter if we're blowing up cars, or shooting an emotional scene in a police station, deep inside we all know our imaginations are at work, and our imaginations are manifesting into reality - at least momentarily for the cameras to capture.

  Gabriel Campisi

  Fun, Believe, Passion

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no such thing as absolute cost of labour; it is all a matter of comparison. Every one gets the most which he can for his exertions; some can get little or nothing, because they have not sufficient strength, knowledge or ingenuity; others get much, because they have, comparatively speaking, a monopoly of certain powers.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Cost, Littles, Matter

  William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands.

  Camille Paglia

  Philosophical, Thinking, Hands

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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• In seeking to avoid evil, humanity is responsible for bringing more evil into the world than organisms could ever do merely by exercising their digestive tracts. It is our ingenuity, rather than our animal nature, that has given our fellow creatures such a bitter earthly fate.

  Ernest Becker

  Fate, Exercise, Animal

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• By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will help strengthen our nation and America's middle class, and spur a new age of innovation and ingenuity in our country.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Country, College, Class

  "Pelosi: Higher Education Bill is Bipartisan Investment in College Affordability and in America's Middle Class". Press release, July 31, 2008.

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• There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill off, enslave, harass, and in all ways make an unbearable nuisance of himself to himself.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Unbearable, Nuisance

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.138, Penguin

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

  E. B. White

  Blue, Shadow, Barns

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.62, Cornell University Press

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• Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness; Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one cannot make certain of the truth of their reports; Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of warfare; If a secret piece of news is divulged by a spy before the time is ripe, he must be put to death together with the man to whom the secret was told.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Military, War

  "Strategy Six Pack".

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• The world, with all its beauty, its happiness and suffering, its joys and pains, is planned with the utmost ingenuity, in order that the powers of the Self may be shown forth in manifestation.

  Annie Besant

  Beauty, Pain, Self

  Annie Besant (2016). “The Nature and Practice of Yoga”, p.4, BookRix

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• I'd proven to the world that maturity, experience, dedication, and ingenuity can make up for a little senescence. Muscle tightening is not the only thing that happens to our bodies over time. We gain knowledge, focus, and understanding, and those things can help us win.

  Dara Torres

  Maturity, Winning, Dedication

  Dara Torres, Elizabeth Weil (2009). “Age Is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life”, p.216, Three Rivers Press

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• 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.

  L. Tom Perry

  Legacy, Pioneers, Noble

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• Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, and improvising good solutions to tough problems when every second counts. It encompasses ingenuity, determination and being prepared for anything.

  Chris Hadfield

  Determination, Mean, Tasks

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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• The trouble with most people is that they want to know the way and the channels beforehand. They want to tell Supreme Intelligence just how their prayers should be answered. They do not trust the wisdom and ingenuity of God.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Prayer, People, Want

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2009). “The Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.177, Penguin

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