Quotes About Innovation

Trains changed - conductors never did.

Conservative resistance to change, that's all

The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower.

Yüz y?l geri kalmam?z, kazanmaya gayret etmememizi gerektirmez.

He declared Egyptians walked that way; I said if they did I didn't see how they got anything done, but Jem said they accomplished more than the Americans ever did, they invented toilet paper and perpetual embalming, and asked where would we be today if they hadn't? Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.

He rarely gathered news; people brought it to him. It was said he made up every edition of The Maycombe Tribune out of his own head and wrote it down on the linotype.

The poetry was so ahead of its time no one has deciphered it yet

The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower, she thought.

Almost no effective treatments existed for prevalent diseases until the eighteenth century. Until the late 1830s, the lack of effective anesthesia made the few common surgical procedures horribly painful and all others impossible. Between

I challenge us to change, because as Charles Darwin once observed, "It is not the strongest species that will survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

passionless good ideas are not only useless, they are a liability.

It is the dance between chaos and order that is truly creative.

If it's going to a company, use a Substitute thought. For example, if it's an electric bill, see electricity (lightning) shooting out of a mailbox.

We want to eliminate rote, not find uses for it.

If they invent a car that runs on stupid jokes, you could go far.

I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, "It's true. There aren't any new words. Our job is to give new meanings and special overtones to absolutely ordinary words." I find the thought reassuring. It means that vast, unknown stretches still lie before us, fertile territories just waiting for us to cultivate them.

Give yourself five minutes to consider how you can turn a miserable situation to your benefit and that light bulb is going to click on.

Our responsibility begins with our imagination.

What's really important here, I whispered loudly to myself,is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have

If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing?

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. That's the world of hicks and slobs. Real people would be ashamed of themselves doing that.

It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine.

I add things, cross them off, then add a whole other bunch and cross them off, too.

When you introduce things that most readers have never seen before into a piece of fiction, you have to describe them with as much precision and in as much detail as possible. What you can eliminate from fiction is the description of things that most readers have seen.