#ingenuity

The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified. ↗

— Oliver DeMille

#ingenuity #leadership #leadership

Men are creatures of invention and are usually determined not to accept no for an answer. ↗

— Mario Stinger

#innovation #invention #tenacity #men

A creative America has walls for structure but no ceilings at all. The doors and windows always stay open. No member who wants in is left out. Outsider ideas are invited and celebrated....Each creator grows the revolution. Whatever kind of creator you may be, you are part of the revolution’s orchestra, its folk music, chorus, melody, and anthem. ↗

— Ashfaq Ishaq

#music

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

— Douglas Adams

#complete #completely #design #foolproof #fools

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#afternoon #depended #entertainment #go #growing

How fantastic that the American ingenuity of NASA scientists got us to Mars. It makes me proud to be an American. I can't get enough of these images from when the probe touched down. These scientists are American heroes. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#down #enough #fantastic #get #got

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

#american #bill #bold #clean #clean energy

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

#combination #exercise #facilities #ingenuity #intuition

The way to an American economic comeback, the way to help those out of work today find a paycheck, is to unleash the forces of job creation in America. The source of new jobs isn't going to be the bureaucracies of Washington, but rather the creativity, ingenuity, and hard work of the American people. ↗

— Rob Portman

#american #american people #bureaucracies #comeback #creation

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

— George Dennison Prentice

#debt #get #half #ingenuity #into