Mitch Hedberg Quotes

The best substitute for money is ingenuity.

The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.

A good wit will make use of anything.

Sometimes you have to be clever.

I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet and solve problems with ingenuity.

People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

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

I learned from both my parents that you had to be clever.

Humans are not the fastest or the strongest animals on the planet, but when it comes to survival, we have had the unique advantage of being clever.

When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

The world's been pretty good at coming up with new ways of doing things.

One day, my bike tire broke miles from home and I found a way to fix it. That's what I learned: Even if you don't have all the tools, you can improvise.

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

Creativity was born out of necessity because I didn't have many things to play with.

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.

One reason that we're so adaptable is that humans are excellent tool users and homebuilders. When our environment doesn't provide us with something that we need, we try to make it ourselves out of whatever is available, whether that's rock or wood or ore or DNA.

It's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side.

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

My husband wanted one of those big-screen TVs for his birthday. So I just moved his chair closer to the one we have already.

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

The genius is making a way out of no way.

Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.

It's not about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness .