Quotes About Innovation

The more we are able to draw upon our right brain capacity, the more fully we will be able to visualize, to synthesize, to transcend time and present circumstances, to project a holistic picture of what we want to do and to be in life.

we must constantly re-educate and reinvent ourselves.

Think about a person who typically sees things differently than you do. Consider ways in which those differences might be used as stepping-stones to third alternative solutions. Perhaps you could seek out his or her views on a current project or problem, valuing the different views you are likely to hear.

Preserve the Core AND Stimulate Progress

Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new. Give us more to see...

Gagarin had just flown around the world. Now he needed a horse and cart. To those familiar with only slightly later TV footage of NASA spacecraft returning to earth [...] Gagarin's return is in a league of its own, an exercise of the surreal with a uniquely Russian twist.

Since childhood I'd been suspected of imagination

if you were faced with something that appeared impossible, it just meant you were not looking at all of the possibilities.

Desperate problems mandated desperate measures.

A problem that occurred too quickly for me to solve, so I brought it along.

My favorite American philosopher is Ralph Waldo Emerson, who once observed, "If you write a better book, or preach a better sermon, or build a better mousetrap than your neighbor, the world will make a beaten path to your door.

Most people are reluctant to see themselves as being creative because they associate creativity with complexity. But creativity is simplicity.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. —George S. Patton

A leader continuously communicates the benefits of an ever-changing organization. A leader endorses an organization that is continuously reinventing itself to higher and higher levels of productivity and innovation.

Good leaders continue to seek creative input from their direct reports. This practice is not only good for the business, it's also highly motivational for both parties to the conversation.

Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future. —Peter Drucker

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." —Charles Mingus, legendary jazz musician

Great ideas come to us in the shower when it's the only time in the day when we're completely alone.

THINK LIKE A HERO (who can I help today?), WORK LIKE AN ARTIST (what else can we try?), REFUSE TO BE ORDINARY (pursue excellence, then kill it.), and CELEBRATE (but take no credit.).

L.A. . . . is the old America of legend and distant memory . . . the old America that invented itself all over from the ground up every single day.

Sucede todos los días. Las compañías que no crecen están muriendo, una tras otra.

el principio más importante del crecimiento empresarial: la regla de la luz verde: prevender, prevender, prevender.

capitalism encourages risk-taking and optimism, which in turn leads to innovation that transforms both production and society itself... However, innovation and growth generate a milieu of pervasive uncertainty: since the process of innovation itself transforms the future, there is no capacity for a rational anticipation of it.

One way to look at design—any kind of design—is that it's essentially about constraints (things you have to do and things you can't do) and tradeoffs (the less-than-ideal choices you make to live within the constraints).