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Quotes About Innovation

It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
~ Nikola Tesla
You enrich people with creative resources, and over time, these Lego bricks that end up in their heads eventually build this enormous, incredible castle.
~ Maria Popova
People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often
~ Jeff Bezos
The cool things about space is when you put your pants on here, you can put them on two legs at a time.
~ Chris Hadfield
Science advances one funeral at a time.
~ Max Planck
Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Kaizen is like a hotbed that nurtures small and ongoing changes, while innovation is like magma that appears in abrupt eruptions from time to time
~ Masaaki Imai
Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.
~ Tony Hoare
How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!
~ Archimedes
If you must make a mistake, make a new one each time.
~ Dale Carnegie
A culture truly changes only when a new way of operating has been shown to succeed over some minimum period of time.
~ John P. Kotter
At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.
~ Vivienne Westwood
You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.
~ James Agee
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
~ Orson Welles
We must ask nothing of artists but to be of their own time.
~ Eileen Gray
It's very difficult to be different from the rest of the crowd the majority of the time, which by definition is what you're doing if you're a successful trader.
~ Bill Lipschutz
Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.
~ Robert Rodriguez
My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.
~ Desmond Llewelyn
The time has passed for our sensations in painting to be whispered. We wish them in the future to sing and re-echo upon our canvasses in deafening and triumphant flourishes.
~ Umberto Boccioni
I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game; it is the game.
~ Lou Gerstner
You don't always need the absolute latest gear. Find your piece(s) of equipment and let time evolve your ideas with that setup.
~ Richie Hawtin
Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.'
~ John Lasseter
Enough is enough and it's time for a change.
~ Owen Hart
I think that it's a great time to be a designer.
~ Paula Scher