Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to.

To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.

I have taken to living by my wits.

Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, and improvising good solutions to tough problems when every second counts. It encompasses ingenuity, determination and being prepared for anything.

A good wit will make use of anything.

Sometimes you have to be clever.

If you're asked something on a movie set and you say 'I don't know,' you lose confidence in every department. What you need to say is 'I'll have that for you in five minutes.'

My heroes are always ready, willing, and able to execute moves necessary to get themselves out of deep trouble.

Life is going to hit you some line drives, and sometimes you'll have to think fast. However, it's better to think first than to think fast.

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

I learned from both my parents that you had to be clever.

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

I had a lot of learning on my feet.

Many live by their wits but few by their wit.

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.

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

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.

The best substitute for money is ingenuity.

Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.

I travel with a boom box. When I get on a plane, I stuff the power cord for the boom box into the battery compartment. From an outsider's point of view, it looks like I've got it all wrong.

Dimitri: "They weren't supposed to let you in."Rose: "Yeah. Well, I kind of found a work-around."Dimitri: "Of course you did."- Dimitri Belikov and Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)

Even as a baby I quickly learned to crawl out of my crib. ... They'd put up barriers but I learned how to go over them.

There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.