Joy Mangano Quotes

I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector sets, and for some reason I had the idea that if I put things together just the right way, I could create the intended effect.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

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

Even when I was young, I would build things with Lego or make 'robots' out of cereal boxes - long before I learned metalwork. The desire to build was always there.

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

Devising a mechanism is a lot like solving a puzzle - and gives you the same kind of kick.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

My training and my inclination is to invent.

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something.

I like to experiment a lot and invent things.

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. He tries and fails maybe a 1000 times. If he succeeds once, then he's in.

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

I think of myself as more of a maker than a thinker.

I'd been taking things apart and inventing things since I was a little kid… I still have memories as a child trying to really understand how things work.

It's really fun and challenging to build things that have never been built before.

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.

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

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

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

As a kid, I remember taking apart whatever I could get my hands on.

All children have creative power.

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