Quotes About Innovation

Mark Twain said "all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources.

He wirelessly lit over 200 lamps from a distance of over 25 miles, proving that electricity could be transmitted great distances through the air.

When you start viewing creativity as a process of combination, and imagination as the ability to connect, stretch, and merge things in new ways, creative brilliance becomes less mystifying. A creative genius is just better at connecting the dots than others are. That's

It takes curiosity to find your call to adventure, it takes courage to venture into the unknown, and it takes imagination to create your path. And to, like Tesla did, create it exactly as you envision

we may not be built for the NFL or Kentucky Derby, but we're surrounded by opportunities every day, everywhere we go. There is no shortage of problems to be solved, needs and desires to be fulfilled, and innovative ways to help others.

good artists copy but great artists steal.

No magnificent product of the imagination—whether a machine, painting, or philosophy—was created in a complete vacuum. The invention of the telegraph took the efforts of a thousand, but the last man, who added that final inspired touch, got the

secure military communications, and even pictures to any point in the world. "When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts," Tesla promised.

There's a catch to "combinatorial creativity," though. Before you can connect dots, you need to have dots to connect. The more material you're exposed to in the world, the more grist you'll have for your imagination mill.

York City attorney—in 1887 to learn more about his alternating current theories and designs. Tesla passionately described how the entire system would work,

declared Tesla as the true "father of radio.

His imagination was a factory with unlimited resources, and the world an exciting playground with unlimited possibilities.

Imagine the pressure Tesla faced: both the world's most powerful financier—one of the last enemies you'd want—and the world's greatest inventor were trying to draw a bead on him and pull the trigger. Most men would've quietly resigned, or begged for scraps, but not Tesla.

that this form of electricity would ever be available in non-metropolitan areas.

takes curiosity to find your call to adventure, it takes courage to venture into the unknown, and it takes imagination to create your path. And to, like Tesla did, create it exactly as you envision it, no matter how much work it takes, or how many people try to stop you.

takes curiosity to find your call to adventure, it takes courage to venture into the unknown, and it takes imagination to create your path.

genius answers those questions audaciously and lavishly. She dares to imagine everything and anything as possible, and carries our culture to worlds that never were. You can do the same.

The Great Mystery of Genius

A creative genius is just better at connecting the dots than others are. That's

Despite receiving over 800 patents in his lifetime, and quite literally inventing the twentieth century, he died penniless and alone.

field of human endeavor, the more visionary the work, the less likely it is to be quickly understood and embraced by lesser minds.

Don't confuse creativity and imagination with "thinking" either. Ray Bradbury said that thinking is the enemy of creativity because it's self-conscious. When you think you sit calmly and try to reason through something in a structured, logical way. Creativity dances to a different tune.

You never know where your imagination will find pieces for its puzzles.

creativity is a process, not a providence.