Quotes About Innovation

All that we have gained, the machine threatens- once a tool assumes a force of its own. Instead of letting us get used to mastery, for buildings more severe it cuts the stone.

Play the game, but play it your own way – part of the time at least. Play the game, but raise the ante, my boy. Learn how it operates, learn how you operate.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.

Imitation is suicide.

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

Be an opener of doors

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Build therefore your own world.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

Go where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood. -Is it so bad, then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood...

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Break the monotony. Do something strange and extravagant!

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

Imitation cannot go above its model.

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." ? Ralph Waldo Emerson

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.