Ernest Dimnet Quotes

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it. A genius is the one most like himself.

Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.

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.

If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.

Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

Creativity can solve almost any problem.

The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

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

The genius is making a way out of no way.