Seanan McGuire Quotes

FCA is a culture of leaders and employees that were born out of adversity and who operate without sheet music.

You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There's nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night.

It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems.

Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

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

Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust.

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

Every challenge has its own unique problems.

Sometimes, disaster can inspire ingenuity.

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.

I've proven I can hang in there, go through adversity, and pull tricks out of the bag.

I was a big jugaadoo.

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.

Necessity is often the mother of balls

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.

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

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.

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

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

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

Guns make you stupidbetter to fight your wars with duct tape. Duct tape makes you smart.

It is interesting to note that life never leaves us stranded. If life hands us a problem, it hands us also the abilities with which to meet the problem.