Quotes About Innovation

We need to think of imagination not as the faculty that produces visual or auditory images but as a combination of novelty and luck.

We need to think of imagination not as the faculty that produces visual or auditory images but as a combination of novelty and luck. To be imaginative, as opposed to being merely fantastical is to do something new and to be lucky enough to have that novelty be adopted by one's fellow humans, incorporated into their social practices.

Genghis Khan's 'arrow messengers' could travel 450 kilometers a day.

Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially be cured through stem cell research, diseases that touch every family in America and in the world.

I feel, in a word, the need as [Wladyslaw] Heine would say, to "say something great" Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I feel that within me there is maturing a completely new and original form which dispenses with the usual formulas and patterns and breaks them down Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I feel with utter certainty that something is there, that something will be born.*

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.

To stay ahead, always have your next idea waiting in the wings.

Change is disturbing when it is done to us, exhilarating when it is done by us.

And the city isn't only city hall or even the avenues of fixed buildings with fixed activities. It is also the life and culture of the people as seen in pop-up stores, food trucks, events, festivals, sidewalk chalk artists, and outdoor mural painters.

Given such strong defenses against change, fresh ideas come from those who do more than think outside the box. They think outside the building.

Florence Nightingale was never called "the Lady with the Lamp," but "the Lady with the Hammer," an image deftly readjusted by the war reporter of the Times since it was far too coarse for the folks back home. Far from gliding about the hospital with her lamp aloft, Nightingale earned her nickname through a ferocious attack on a locked storeroom when a military commander refused to give her the medical supplies she needed.

Where is the electric socket for possibility, the access to the energy of transformation?

Leaders who become their vision often seem uncommonly brave to the rest of us.

Every problem, every dilemma, every dead end we find ourselves facing in life, only appears unsolvable inside a particular frame or point of view. Enlarge the box, or create another frame around the data, and problems vanish, while new opportunities appear.

New devils require new gods.

jiggered-together adaptations.

Rigidity of thought is a trap too many of us fall into. . . .

think a lot of artists do. We don't quite fit in, and somehow that feeds our creativity. We have to create other worlds to feel right.

Quando si usa l'immaginazione, tanto vale pensare in grande

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion

philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau claimed, "The more ingenious and accurate our instruments, the more unsusceptible and inexpert become our organs: by assembling a heap of machinery about us, we find afterwards none in ourselves.

Our new ways are disruptive. They will look weird. This is good. Let us not care, but enjoy that glimpse in another's eyes that we will find sometimes—the one that says, "You're not crazy. I feel it, too.

We don't want to be the conquistadors. We want to be Charles Darwin.