Henry Louis Gates Jr. Quotes

Instead of being intimidated by the limitations, be inspired to find new ways around them.

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

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

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 not about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness .

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It's not resources but resourcefulness that ultimately makes the difference.

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.

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

If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

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

Out of necessity comes genius.

'm the inspiration for picking it up off the floor after it fell off the stool and figuring out a way to make it still work.

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

We can always find creative ways to do things.

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

We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.

If somebody says you can't do something, find five ways to do it.

Creativity can solve almost any problem.

You know you can usually solve almost any problem, or you'll realize you can't, but usually you can solve almost any problem through some sort of trickery one way or another and get the shot to work, but you know when to give up.

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.

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

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

Necessity is the spur of genius.