Quotes About Innovation

the competitive mind is not the creative one.

You must get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create, not to compete for what is already created.

Genius is Omniscience flowing into man. Genius is more than talent.

The progress of the world is retarded only by those who do not fill the places they are holding; they belong to a former age and a lower stage or plane of life, and their tendency is toward degeneration.

I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.

The moderns, carrying little baggage of the kind that Shelly called "merely cultural," not even living in the traditional air, but breathing into their space helmets a scientific mixture of synthetic gases (and polluted at that) are the true pioneers. Their circuitry seems to include no atavistic domestic sentiment, they have suffered empathectomy, their computers hum no ghostly feedback of Home, Sweet Home. How marvelously free they are! How unutterably deprived!

When you're nailing a custard pie to the wall, and it starts to wilt, it doesn't do any good to hammer in more nails.

maybe we were the diggers of literature

We can't tell who first had an idea; we can only tell who first had it influentially, who formulated it in a striking way and left it in some form, poem or equation or picture, that others could stumble upon with the shock of recognition. The radical ideas that have been changing our attitudes toward our habitat have been around forever.

All poetry is experimental poetry.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.

A change of style is a change of meaning.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The observation of the unconscious, so far as it can be observed, should reveal things of which we have previously been unconscious, not the familiar things of which we have been conscious plus imagination. p. 919

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

I believe in being an innovator.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.