Quotes About Innovation

The only way to create something that nobody hates is to ensure that it can't be loved either. Remove enough spice from soup, and you'll just end up with water.

More science happens through lucky accidents than you'd believe, Radiant Lopen," Rushu said. "It makes me wonder how many amazing innovations we've passed up because we were searching for something else, and didn't realize what we'd done.

una idea espantosa ejecutada de forma brillante tiene que ser mejor que una idea brillante ejecutada de forma espantosa.

All great art is hated

The best and truest duty of a person is to add to the world. To create, and not destroy.

maybe we can take a whole lot of little steps that, when looked at together, might seem brilliant to somebody who doesn't know us.

But we don't. Given two works of artistic majesty, otherwise weighted equally, we will give greater acclaim to the one who did it first. It doesn't matter what you create. It matters what you create before anyone else.

Why was it that scientists were so excited to discover facts that farmers had known for generations and generations?

Make friends with physicists and mathematicians, writers. It pays off.)

Where once kings and warriors shaped the world, now quiet men in offices will do the same—and do it far, far more effectively.

If we want people to fully show up, to bring their whole selves including their unarmored, whole hearts—so that we can innovate, solve problems, and serve people—we have to be vigilant about creating a culture in which people feel safe, seen, heard, and respected.

This notion that the leader needs to be "in charge" and to "know all the answers" is both dated and destructive. Its impact on others is the sense that they know less, and that they are less than. A recipe for risk aversion if ever I have heard it. Shame becomes fear. Fear leads to risk aversion. Risk aversion kills innovation.

What's the most significant barrier to creativity and innovation? Kevin thought about it for a minute and said, "I don't know if it has a name, but honestly, it's the fear of introducing an idea and being ridiculed, laughed at, and belittled.

Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared.

If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader." As

If leaders really want people to show up, speak out, take chances, and innovate, we have to create cultures where people feel safe—where their belonging is not threatened by speaking out and they are supported when they make the decision to brave the wilderness, stand alone, and speak truth to bullshit.

If we want to reignite innovation and passion, we have to rehumanize work.

acknowledge and reward great questions and instances of "I don't know, but I'd like to find out" as daring leadership behaviors. The big shift here is from wanting to "be right" to wanting to "get it right.

If we're going to put ourselves out there and love with our whole hearts, we're going to experience heartbreak. If we're going to try new, innovative things, we're going to fail. If we're going to risk caring and engaging, we're going to experience disappointment.

curiosity is correlated with creativity, intelligence, improved learning and memory, and problem solving.

The only unique contribution that we will ever make in this world will be born of our creativity

Quick and dirty wins the race. Perfection

When failure is not an option we can forget about learning, creativity, and innovation. When

If we want to reignite innovation and passion, we have to rehumanize work. When shame becomes a management style, engagement dies. When failure is not an option we can forget about learning, creativity, and innovation.