Quotes About Innovation

What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change the world.

[Nikola Tesla] was thinking of parts actually moving, like exchanging positions in space through time. This would go over here, then that would go over there, and then something else would happen.

I just think that the way the industry is changing and the world is changing, it might make more sense in two years for bands to have a different band name every time.

I wanted to build businesses from the time I was little.

It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our own time, of contemporary society.

The one thing with 3D presentations is I think that 3D itself, whether it's 24 or 48, is at a very interesting point in time.

Rembrandt was way ahead of his time. It's as if he was painting an amateur theatrical, or a professional theatrical, in his studio. It's a kind of performance.

I can't say what I'm going to wear all the time. The minute that I say that, then there's something in me that tips off and then I need to break out of that.

Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent.

The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.

I used to experiment all the time with my hair color.

I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.

Making you a pioneer only means one thing. You were around at the time.

In the '70s, if anything, it was a more interesting time in fashion. It was a time when things were changing, especially in London.

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

Giving birth to something that could possibly change the lives of millions of people for possibly decades, hundreds of years, whatever the length of time the run is, is a great feeling.

That's why you hear about people coming up with inventions almost at the same time, because someone else is thinking about it.

In the '80's my gut feeling was that airlines were crap. I hated spending time on planes. I thought we could create the kind of airline I'd like. So we got a secondhand 747 and gave it a go.

I've always had a soft spot for dreamers – not those who waste their time thinking 'what if' but the ones who look to the sky and say 'why can't I shoot for the moon?'

We [Virgin Group] have been successful not by wasting time scrutinising our competitors but by looking at ourselves from the point of view of our customers do and seeking feedback through listening.

These last few years, working with Tim Burton, it's been the best time I've ever had.

If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way.

The height of success is when you break your business, that is what I say! Just when you think things are really really going well that's the time to change.