Lawrence Welk Quotes

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

I mean, we're - if I may say so - we're experts at using materials and processes in ways for which they were never intended.

I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.

One of the most important things a person can learn to do is to make something out of whatever he or she happens to have at the moment.

Actually there were [ in MacGyver] a lot of things about the original that focused on the character, but not too many people seem to remember that.

If you are creative enough to imagine a problem, you're clever enough to discover a solution.

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

If one door is closed, break a window anyway.

Inventing is something that has always come very natural to me. As a child, I was always fiddling with things, making contraptions. I'd see something, go home, and try to make something even better.

I was a big jugaadoo.

I left the Army in 2000 and went into industry before I started appearing on TV in 2003. My best job there was on a series called 'Crafty Tricks Of War' for the BBC. I loved that because it celebrated how clever and inventive people are and the ingenuity that goes into solving problems.

I think my career has been instances of me trying to figure out ways to get around doing it the right way because I don't think I have the tools to do it the right way. There's a talent to that.

Everybody has stories about using duct tape. Of course, most don't try to lift a car with it.

If an employee can demonstrate results produced in a way that the company didn't think possible, then a new way forward can begin to take shape.

Creativity can solve almost any problem.

The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else.

The genius is making a way out of no way.

Necessity is often the mother of balls

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

Every problem has a creative solution.

A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.

Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.