Quotes About Innovation

Ed Catmull says, "Toy Story 2 was the defining moment for our studio.… People and how they work together is more important than ideas. They [other companies] could copy our technology but they couldn't copy our team.

The original mistake, which was responsible for all this misery, was committed when our scientists began to create a new world of steel and iron and chemistry and electricity and forgot that the human mind is slower than the proverbial turtle, is lazier than the well-known sloth, and marches from one hundred to three hundred years behind the small group of courageous leaders.

What doesn't exist you have to create yourself. Even a dream can be plucked out of your head and shaped for a purpose.

New ideas are always resisted.

one must occasionally stand the world on its head in order to put it on its feet.

Time is invention and nothing else.

the human mind is so constructed that it cannot begin to understand the new until it has done everything in its power to relate it to the old.

Christian leadership is a dead-end street when nothing new is expected, when everything sounds familiar and when ministry has regressed to the level of routine.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

This world is but canvas to our imaginations.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.

Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state...

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Trade and commerce, if they were not made of India-rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.

If there is not a new man, how can the new clothes be made to fit? If you have any enterprise before you, try it in your old clothes.

If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dulness. I

The world is but a canvas to our imagination

The world is but a canvas for our imagination

Nature abhors repetition

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried. Whatever have been thy failures hitherto, "be not afflicted, my child, for who shall assign to thee what thou hast left undone?