Quotes About Innovation

Monday Night Football started in 1970, and when it started, it was something extremely special because sports had not been aired in prime time. So, it was a novelty, and a lot of people thought it wouldn't work, and, of course, it worked spectacularly well.

When dealing in the technology, it becomes a question of whether you overuse something. I think that's worse than having something technologically available to you and not using it.

I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another.

With a name like Smucker's, it has to be good." Most companies, especially family companies, would never make fun of their own name. Yet the Smucker family did, which is one reason why Smucker's is the No.1 brand of jams and jellies. If your name is bad, you have two choices: change the name or make fun of it.

Marriage, as a human institution, depends on the concept of first being better than best. And so does business.

Futurist Faith Popcorn goes even further. By the year 2010, she predicts, 90 percent of all consumer products will be home-delivered. "They'll put a refrigerator in your garage and bar code your kitchen. Every week they'll restock your favorites, without your ever having to reorder. They'll even pick up your dry cleaning, return your videotapes, whatever you need.

I've got a great team of engineers behind this race car. I've got a great bunch of mechanics that make it reliable. This car is developed to go out there and be better than the Reynard, and I feel that it is.

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

It's hard to force creativity and humor.

Cursing's for the uncreative. They say "Frack! on Battlestar Galactica, and everyone still knows what it means.

I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.

The world is full of new developments and love must also be something that innovates. Risk and adventure must be re-invented against safety and comfort.

The audacity of thought is not to repeat 'to the limit' that which is already entirely retained within the situation which the limit limits; the audacity of thought consists in crossing a space where nothing is given. We must learn once more how to succeed.

We need to kill Aristotle!

The possibility of a musical modernity that was not characterized by sensationalism

They say that a director always makes the same film. I try to make, as François Truffaut said, the next film in opposition to the one that came before. I'm not sure if I succeed. To put it another way, I agree with the auteur theory, but I don't consider myself an auteur. I'm more of an artisan, a craftsman.

The writer must proudly consent to bear his own date, knowing that there are no masterpieces in eternity, but only works in history, and that they survive only to the degree that they have left the past behind them and heralded the future.

A new form will always seem more or less an absence of any form at all, since it is unconsciously judged by reference to the consecrated forms.

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe -- you can't take a taxi.

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful: Yourself.

If you know what you're looking for, that's all you'll get - what's previously known. But when you're open to what's possible, you get something new - that's creativity.

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.