Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

There's always some room for improvisation.

I work my angles and things like that.

I was a big jugaadoo.

I've always got a couple of tricks up my sleeve.

Innovation is a discipline not a lottery... It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and openmindedness.

I usually go in ahead of time, like at a rehearsal, or a meeting, and tell them, "It may appear that I'm going to go haywire, but I'm not." I always map out what I'm going to do. Still, a lot of it is improvised.

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

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

It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.

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.

You must plan to be spontaneous.

It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good.

I just find things that work and embellish them.

You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.

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

Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare.

If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.

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

It is necessary to develop a strategy that utilizes all the physical conditions and elements that are directly at hand. The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.