Quotes About Innovation

Once you free your mind about the concept of harmony and of music being correct, you can do whatever you want. So nobody told me what to do, and there was no preconception of what to do.

When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, "But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so dirty." I told her that was just the point - mine wouldn't be.

Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.

People started coining the phrase, 'Bubba Golf,' whatever you want to call it, which I like. 'Bubba Golf' is going to be fun. I mean, why do what everybody else does? That's boring.

No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.

After my death, I want to be remembered as Africa's greatest industrialist.

I try to make things more interesting. I want to inject a little bit of excitement. I try to do the show for the sake of the show itself, not to make money. Fashion isn't always about making money.

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

Don't be afraid of new ideas. Be afraid of old ideas. They keep you where you are and stop you from growing and moving forward. Concentrate on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.

As a creator, I always want to betray fans expectations.

What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.

People tend to want to follow the beaten path. The difficulty is that the beaten path doesn't seem to be leading anywhere.

The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse.' There is no evidence that people want to use these things.

Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves.

You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.

I make solutions that nobody wants to problems that don't exist.

I'm not interested in a group of people with some sort of incredible homogeny,a group that can do the movement I want. I'm interested in people whocan take the movement somewhere.

We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years, but if we want to continue, our future is in space.

One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it.

In order to take our lives to the next level, we must realize that the same pattern of thinking that has gotten us to where we are now will not get us to where we want to go.

If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal 'em. Take those hands.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.