Charles Leadbeater Quotes

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.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

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

Humans are very imaginative animals.

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.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.

My dad used to give me old electrical equipment that didn't work anymore, and I'd put things together. I think that's why I like to mix things that don't belong.

Sometimes, disaster can inspire ingenuity.

In New York, ingenuity goes hand-in-hand with the hustle to survive.

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.

Remember that there's no one way of doing things. ... If you just get a hammer and hit it really hard, whatever it is, I guarantee you it'll open.

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

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

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.

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.

Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

The best substitute for money is ingenuity.

To be creative, a person has to internalize the entire system that makes creativity possible. Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.

It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities. I have a lot of faith in the entrepreneurial nature of our 1.25 billion people. There is a lot of capability. And I have a clear road-map to channel it.

Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.