Ruta Sepetys Quotes

The roots of creativity of cooking are hungry people trying to figure out how to take something that's not particularly fresh or tender and transform it into it something delicious that everyone will love.

When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

make away out of no way

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

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.

The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes and more expenditure . . . the cook, who had up to that time been employed as a slave of low price, become dear: what had been nothing but a metier was elevated to an art.

All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.

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.

If things don't come easy to you, you have to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

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

If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you.

Less money sometimes allows you to be more creative.

This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem to give an answer, we create one.

Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques.

A tinkerer,” snapped Pasiphaë. “Even worse. I knew Daedalus. His inventions brought me nothing but trouble.” Leo blinked. “Daedalus…like, the Daedalus? Well, then, you should know all about us tinkerers. We’re more into fixing, building, occasionally sticking wads of oilcloth in the mouths of rude ladies—

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.

When you have no money, you need invention.

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.

If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.