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Quotes About Innovation

I, on the other hand, believe that the source of creativity is found on the same plane of reality as Resistance.
~ Steven Pressfield
If Resistance couldn't be beaten, there would be no Fifth Symphony, no Romeo and Juliet, no Golden Gate Bridge. Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.
~ Steven Pressfield
When an idea pops into our head and we think, "No, this is too crazy," … that's the idea we want. When we think, "This notion is completely off the wall … should I even take the time to work on this?" … the answer is yes. Never doubt the soup. Never say no. The answer is always yes.
~ Steven Pressfield
Next to Resistance, rational thought is the artist or entrepreneur's worst enemy. Bad things happen when we employ rational thought, because rational thought comes from the ego. Instead, we want to work from the Self, that is, from instinct and intuition, from the unconscious.
~ Steven Pressfield
Fundamentalism and art are mutually exclusive. There is no such thing as fundamentalist art.
~ Steven Pressfield
Ideas come according to their own logic. That logic is not rational. It's not linear. We may get the middle before we get the end. We may get the end before we get the beginning. Be ready for this. Don't resist it.
~ Steven Pressfield
No matter what a writer or artist may tell you, they have no clue what they're doing before they do it—and, for the most part, while they're doing it.
~ Steven Pressfield
she doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in anticipation of its apparition.
~ Steven Pressfield
The ultimate source of creativity, he argues, is divine.
~ Steven Pressfield
Remember: There's no such thing as a mistake in the kitchen, just a new recipe waiting to be discovered!)
~ Steven Raichlen
Israel is not only about Bibi and wars; it is about a new generation finding itself through its culture and its food.
~ Steven Rothfeld
Reinventing beats inventing nearly every time.
~ Stewart Brand
At present, the best low-carbon source is nuclear.
~ Stewart Brand
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
~ Stewart Brand
Form follows funding.
~ Stewart Brand
Seize the century.
~ Stewart Brand
Cuando nos enfrentemos a un problema de difícil solución quizá resulte fructífero preguntarnos: '¿Qué haría un microbio?
~ Stewart Brand
The temptation to customize a building around a new technology is always enormous, and it is nearly always unnecessary. Technology is relatively lightweight and flexible—more so every decade. Let the technology adapt to the building rather than vice versa, and then you're not pushed around when the next technology comes along.
~ Stewart Brand
Don't force the players to animate your creation, breathe life into it from the very start.
~ Stewart Wieck
I realized that what matters with any innovation is that it actually creates more value for people.
~ Stuart Crainer
Better catch up with reality. You're missing the boat. Time's going to come when computers will do everything." "I have trouble believing that. It just seems so unlikely ." "You're not a believer like the rest of us. The day will come when ten-year-olds will master these machines and you'll be at their mercy.
~ Sue Grafton
There was a certain, subterranean moral code in play, but surely, I could think of a way around that old thing.
~ Sue Grafton
If someone should ask me, 'What does the soul do?' I would say, It does two things. It loves. And it creates. Those are its primary acts.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
You gotta imagine what's never been
~ Sue Monk Kidd