Quotes About Innovation

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try…

We had two tins of Virol, which we were keeping for an emergency; but, finding ourselves in need of an oil-lamp to eke out our supply of candles, we emptied one of the tins in the manner that most appealed to us, and fitted it with a wick made by shredding a bit of canvas. When

There's only one thing that all the successful companies in the world have in common: None was started by one person.

Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.

The death of the entrepreneur is solitude.

The biological function of art, in other words, is that of a rehearsal, a training in mental gymnastics which increases our tolerance of the unexpected.

It's bad idea to try to prevent people from knowing their own history. If you want to do anything new you must first make sure you know what people have tried before.

L'utopia non è il traguardo ma il punto di partenza. Si immagina e si vuole realizzare un luogo che non c'è ancora.

In ogni specie sono i solitari a tentare esperienze nuove. Sono una quota sperimentale che va alla deriva. Dietro di loro la traccia aperta si richiude.

But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made.

True creativity does not come easily; creativity is born of risk and refined from failure.

We are all time voyagers leaving history in our wake, pioneering into the future.

There is no proof of creativity without action.

Average is always a safe choice, and it is the most dangerous choice you can make.

Jesus's early followers formed a movement of dreamers and visionaries.

The task is ... not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

Today you ain't no kind of horn player you don't acknowledge some debt to Hieronymus Falk. He was one of the pioneers: a German Louis Armstrong, if you will.

But Abraham, you mean I'm supposed to make stuff up !?!? - You are creators, you make stuff up all the time!

Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.

Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect.

That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make it true. You see?

James Lister and Louis Pasteur were at first excluded from academic honor societies and laughed at for their theories on sterilization, vaccination, and pasteurization.