Quotes About Innovation

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day this will be an airborne life. But by then men will have forgotten how to fly; they will be passengers on machines whose conductors are carefully promoted to a familiarity with labelled buttons, and in whose minds knowledge of the sky and the wind and the way of weather will be extraneous as passing fiction.

One day you'll do something, see something or get an idea that seems to pop up from nowhere. And you'll feel a kind of stirring- like a warm flicker inside your chest. When that happens, whatever you do, don't ignore it. Open your mind and explore the idea. Fan your flame.

Oh Cecelia, you would have loved my grandmother, Miz Goodpepper said, dunking a cookie into her wine. She was so alive and full of original ideas, especially for that era. While other women were busy being proper, she was busy cultivating her spirit.

You're alone in your ideas, because you're the only one who knows what's possible.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge

In order to gain access to the right hemisphere, it is necessary to present the left hemisphere with a task that it will turn down.

Today we are not only testing and grading our children into the ground, but we are not teaching them how to see and understand the deep meaning of what they learn, or to perceive the connectedness of information about the world. It is indeed time to try something different.

One of the most encouraging new discoveries that the human brain has made about itself is that it can physically change itself by changing its accustomed ways of thinking, by deliberately exposing itself to new ideas and routines, and by learning new skills.

During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs.

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

You can recognize a pioneer by the arrows in his back.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.

One thing that I tell people is ... if you're going to do anything new or innovative, you have to be willing to be misunderstood. If you cannot afford to be misunderstood, then for goodness' sake, don't do anything new or innovative.

We like to pioneer, we like to explore, we like to go down dark alleys and see what's on the other side.

A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.

If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness.

We are willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.

I would never say no to something the team wanted to do, but I might say yes to something the team didn't want to do. You want there to be multiple ways to get to 'yes' because you want to encourage risk-taking.