Dave Hickey Quotes

If there are challenges thrown across, then some interesting, innovative solutions are found. Without challenges, the tendency is to go on the same way.

The more constraints I have, the more opportunities I have to be creative to fix those constraints.

Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.

I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.

I just find things that work and embellish them.

I learned to glitter the pumpkins for Halloween not because I went into it thinking, 'I'm going to glitter some pumpkins!' No. I bought all of these big, cold, slimy, disgusting pumpkins and tried to carve them, and it was gross, so I had to find something else to do with them. Glitter was life-changing.

I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.

Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

God forgives those who invent what they need.

Getting caught is the mother of invention.

Compromise is the key element. The more constraints you have, the more compromise you have to have. But, I personally believe that, when that happens, you have to get more creative, and you end up with something that is even better.

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

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

What you have to do is work around whatever the 'circumstances are at a club.

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

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

As humans, we've always innovated our way out of problems, whether it was the first torch to light a dark cave or the steam engine that sparked a revolution.

With ShamWow, I had to become my own distributor because no one wanted it. Out of necessity you become something you're not expecting. It was actually a blessing.

I was a big jugaadoo.

You can have a bad opponent out there and still get the job done. You just have to work around certain things.

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.

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.

Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better.

One of the things that I do like about filmmaking is that you find out how to solve new problems.