Quotes About Innovation

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

The Internet makes the writer work harder - I have to say things here I've never said before, or else be caught out in repeating myself.

I don't like repeating things and look out for work that could challenge me.

I don't like mimicking people. I don't like repeating talking points. I don't like arguing with people just to argue. I like actually coming up with an interesting thing to say that I don't think has been said before in that way.

I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.

We need more cartoonists to truly retire when they retire, and not run repeats.

Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page.

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.

When you have a few cake formulas and filling ideas in your repertoire, you will find that it's pretty much an assembly job - you can mix and match a different way every time.

When you do one more 'Cinderella' or whatever, what is there to learn? Every part in the repertoire has a good side and a bad side, and the more often you do the same ballet, the more often the bad side comes out. If you want to give dance life, you must give it fresh food, not keep going back to the garbage to look for old scraps.

Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

There are some designers who flash and burn - Courreges is an example of that. But he still marked fashion history. And I don't think that longevity is always a badge of honor. Modern brand management means that we are always celebrating birthdays, when what is exciting about fashion is innovation, not repetition.

What makes art in general, and literature in particular, remarkable, what distinguishes them from life, is precisely that they abhor repetition. In everyday life, you can tell the same joke thrice and, thrice getting a laugh, become the life of the party. In art, though, this sort of conduct is called 'cliche.'

Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.

There's so many ways you can play one chord progression that the repetition isn't ever exactly the same.

For me, repetition is death.

Even the coolest jobs get stultifying with repetition, and the only way to break that cycle is to bring another job into the mix.

So much in design is presented as a big miracle when it's just a repetition of what's been happening for 80 years.

As an actor you get to play different roles and genres. I feel that it pleases and satisfies me to do different genres as it can get repetitive.

Challenges are fun. It's no fun being repetitive.

I don't want to be totally repetitive and doing the same thing over and over again for the rest of my life. I don't want to do that at all.

I just never want to repeat myself. I also don't want to be bored in life. The great luxury of being an actor is you get to be different people, and I would hate to be repetitive.