Ann Makosinski Quotes

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

Often when you have less to work with, you do more.

Imagination comes of not having things.

It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.

Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity.

When you're little and you don't have much dough, you have to innovate. You have to be sharp.

My mother could make something out of nothing - and everything started from scratch.

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.

People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.

Sometimes when you're given hurdles, it makes you more creative in the end.

Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the most successful shows come out of shoestring invention.

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.

Necessity, the mother of invention

Necessity is the mother of invention.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

The most healthy way to be creative is to work with what you have and not sit around wishing you had something different.

Most jobs require some degree of creativity and flexible thinking.

Not being given everything encourages you to create... That was one of the first steps for me learning to invent things.

Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak.

The genius is making a way out of no way.

Constraint inspires creativity