Quotes About Innovation

Shall the world be confined to one Paris or one Oxford forever?

Noi non veneriamo né le Grazie né le Parche, ma la Moda.

be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

If we stay at home and mind our business, who will want railroads?

guardatevi da tutte le imprese che richiedono abiti nuovi, invece che nuovi «indossatori». Se non c'è l'uomo nuovo, come si potranno fare abiti che gli si adattino? Se dovete intraprendere qualche cosa di nuovo, fatelo nei vostri abiti vecchi.

men have become the tools of their tools. The

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. 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 own clothes.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

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.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things.

for as I am, in reality, the founder of a new province of writing, so I am at liberty to make what laws I please therein.

It has been frequently said that many of the world's greatest inventions were due to accident. In a sense this is true. But the accident was prepared for by previous hard thinking. It would never have occurred had not this thinking taken place.

the larger part of the 50,000 English stocking knitters and their families did not fully emerge from the hunger and misery entailed by the introduction of the machine for the next forty years.

It is as foolish to try to preserve obsolescent industries as to try to preserve obsolescent methods of production: this is often, in fact, merely two ways of describing the same thing.

All method can do is to awaken the most fruitful associations of ideas already in mind. Hence the more methods we adopt—the greater the number of views we take of any problem—the more solutions will suggest themselves. There is one further reason why we should take as many different viewpoints as possible.

She has only one fault; too many ideas.

Nothing exceeds the license occasionally taken by the imagination of very rigid people.

if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur.

What we often take to be the new is simply the old under some novel form.

Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element- direct observation.

Advertising scientifically worked presented itself thus as the great new force. It really does the thing, you know.

Nothing irritates me so as the flatness of people's imagination.

With the new technology that keeps entering the media, film composers are constantly being placed in new learning situations. Acknowledging this and realizing that one must keep up, I maintain, nonetheless, that the real creative power is in the mind and heart of the composer.

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.