Quotes About Innovation

Surprisingly, the Eisenhower Memorial design contains almost none of the known Gehry-box of tricks. His giant etched chain-link curtain, first applied in 1979 to hide an ungracious parking garage at Santa Monica Place, is resurrected for Eisenhower to screen the equally graceless facade of the Department of Education.

I learned to do a few tricks that other people hadn't done before. I developed that trebly bass thing a little further.

I've never used a foam pit or an air bag before. I learned my tricks over time, and double corks have been a slow transition in my pipe riding.

You gotta go out and do the stuff that's going to be pushing the sport and stuff that's going to be next level and scary. It's all about going out and doing those tricks and pretty much surviving.

My favorite player growing up was Julius Erving, because I loved the way he played above the rim, all of the tricks with the ball, big hands, and just phenomenal showmanship.

By 1949 I knew all the studio tricks.

Seasoned queens can also learn new tricks, right?

We wanted to prove to everybody that we weren't the same old Tessa and Scott, trying to do the same tricks again. We wanted to be different.

A lot of hip-hop sounds the same... same thing with skateboarding. But if you see someone coming out here doing some tricks no one's done before that's really cool.

I made 'Desert Moon' and when I made those solo albums, I was trying not to be Styx, because I thought, 'That belongs to us.' So, I made different kinds of solo albums that were not dipping my hand back into the magic Styx jar and pulling out all the tricks - because bands, they have tricks, don't they? That's what makes them different.

I enjoy looking at other people's products and learning from them. We take all of our competitors very seriously, as you know. You have to respect Intel. But we have our own tricks up our sleeves.

I have some tricks in my mind and would like to first try them out in the practice sessions.

If I come on three days after the Super Bowl and say pretty much what everybody else has said, what's the point? That was the tricky thing... coming up with a new angle every time - or most times, because you couldn't bat a thousand.

I try and make all my songs sound different from each other while doing it in a way that's still me. It's a tricky thing to do.

Spaceflight is a tricky business. It is definitely difficult, and I think we forget that sometime.

With any second season, it's a tricky balance between keeping what fans loved and also making sure it feels new.

I used to worry that I had a finite supply of ideas, that I should hold on to each of them in case it was the last. But then I talked to other cartoonists, and I realized ideas are cheap; you can have a million ideas. The tricky part is the follow-through: making good ones work, making the best out of the raw material!

The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

That's the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people.

I will say that 'Source Code' proved to be a very tricky film to shoot.

Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky.

It's tricky to take a book of short stories and turn it into a feature film.