Lenny Kravitz Quotes

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

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

Most of us have heard the saying, 'Cleanliness is next to godliness.' That's a sentiment I value, but another virtue has inspired me to revise that saying. As far as I'm concerned, what's next to godliness is resourcefulness.

There is a use for almost everything.

I loved my computer; it's a tool. A tool increases your mechanical advantages. It allows you to use your strengths and talents to greater advantage, and that's what tools do, and that's what my computer does for me. It's not my toy, it's my tool.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

Do nothing which is of no use.

A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties...and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.

Usefulness depends on tractability.

Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.

Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.

To use is necessary. And if you can't be used, then you're useless.

Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.

I don't care what anything was designed to do, I care about what it can do.

What we need is to use what we have.

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

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

If you can't eat it, can't sleep under it, can't wear it or make something from it, it's not worth anything.

A painting doesn't have to have a real usability other than you looking at it. Obviously, a car, an engine, or battery has to fit people's needs.

Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.

Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.

I'm obsessed with the form of a toolbox. The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It's like Batman's utility belt.

In Maine, there is a deeply ingrained sense that you can always get a little more use out of something.