Ingenious Quotes

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

Seth Godin

Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.101, Penguin

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If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.

Seth Godin

Inspirational, Philosophical, Bravery

Seth Godin (2007). “The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)”, p.66, Penguin

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Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.

Seth Godin

Inspirational, Change, Too Late

Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.119, Penguin

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To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.

Rex Stout

Joy, Detectives, Finesse

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Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

Ambrose Bierce

Player, Men, Gambling

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.133, University of Georgia Press

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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

Ambrose Bierce

Inspirational, Sarcastic, Business

Ambrose Bierce (2015). “The Eyes of the Panther (Cryptofiction Classics - Weird Tales of Strange Creatures)”, p.20, Read Books Ltd

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Set up a life you don't need to escape from.

Seth Godin

Inspirational, Work, Needs

Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.101, Penguin

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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Hope, Medicine, Physicians

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.3340, Delphi Classics

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Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so many evils into the world, as the popular opinion that the way of the transgressor is pleasant and easy.

Hosea Ballou

Mistake, Men, Evil

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Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.

Henry W. Kendall

Government, People, Technique

Henry W. Kendall (2013). “A Distant Light: Scientists and Public Policy”, p.233, Springer

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Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Technology, Tools, Use

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An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out.

Paul Keres

Innovation, Chess, Needs

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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Arthur Helps

Book, Reading, Beer

Arthur Helps (1851). “Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon”, p.263

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It is delightful some times to sit with an ingenious friend, He understands you before you having said anything.

Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

Soul, Said, Delightful

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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

Ambrose Bierce

Spring, Believe, Science

Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.180, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed thereof.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Discovery, People, Paper

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When everything around you is crazy, it is ingenious to stay calm.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Crazy, Stay Calm, Calm

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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Edgar Allan Poe

Imagination, Literature, Facts

1841 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', in the Gentleman's Magazine, Apr.

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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Ambrose Bierce

Ties, Debtors, Owing A Debt

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.40, 谷月社

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Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

Ambrose Bierce

Weather, Kind, Barometer

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.23, University of Georgia Press

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No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Henry A. Kissinger

Heart, Mind, Matter

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The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.

George Berkeley

Men, Prejudice, Corruption

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No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Income, Poverty, Problem

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The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.

Niklaus Wirth

Beautiful, Work, Successful

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['John F. Kennedy] movie is based on a massive best-selling book, which is always helpful. And then the script was amazing and answered my question, "Why this? Why now?" And the "why now" is that it's 50 years since the assassination, and the country needs to have and will have a conversation about that. And the "why this" is the construct, which I think is sort of ingenious.

Rob Lowe

Country, Book, Thinking

Source: www.avclub.com

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