Kanye West Quotes

I learned how to make an endoscope using a Swiss Army Knife, a cell phone camera, cell phone, and chewing gum.

Every day, you got to do adjustments. Every pitch. You got to do what it takes.

In chess, you gotta come up with a strategy. I made a lot of plans in my life. 'I'ma do this, I'ma do that, this is gonna happen, that's gonna happen.' And a lot of stuff don't go as planned. You really gotta act on events as they unfold. That's how I compare chess to life.

I always look at 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail.' They talked about how they wrote this movie with horses, and then they realized that horses are super-expensive and time-consuming. 'Why don't we just change it to coconuts?' That's part of my process.

As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I and my team can come up with a solution.

I don't think much. I'm just going to keep doing what I've been doing. Adjust on the fly if I have to.

I'm taught to adapt and exploit every situation in the ring.

You are not always going to be able to knock it and run. You are going to have to use the other foot, mix things up, use the brain.

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.

Often when you have less to work with, you do more.

Actually, everyone in India does some jugaad in their lives, whether in school, college, marriages, work etc. And most of us have different jugaads for different situations.

Creativity is making a good pass at the right time... but it can also come from deeper, there should always be a balance.

When you're sitting in the basement trying to get on, you have no choice - you've gotta figure out how to make a song: 'I've gotta bang on these buttons until it sounds good.'

I work in response to the limitations of any situation and in relationship to what's possible.

Inventing is something that has always come very natural to me. As a child, I was always fiddling with things, making contraptions. I'd see something, go home, and try to make something even better.

You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.

I was a big jugaadoo.

I'd take garbage, and I'd glue them together and create inventions.

As producers, you always have to go with the flow and be ready to embrace change, and drama and whatever happens.

All the time I had my success, I didn't know what I was doing. I struggled and struggled and hacked things out without any insight as to why.

I've always got a couple of tricks up my sleeve.

The street finds its own uses for things.

If there's something you want to build, but the tech isn't there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.

Even if one succeeds in making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, there remains the problem of what to do with a one-eared sow.

Necessity is often the mother of balls