Michael Arden Quotes

I get my by any means on, whenever there's a drought get your umbrellas out because that's when I brainstorm.

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

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

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

Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high.

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.

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.

The genius is making a way out of no way.

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.

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

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Out of economic hardship can come change - we are suddenly cast onto our wits and our talents and our resources and our strengths, as we lose all the choices we once had.

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.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.