Quotes About Innovation

I've tried to go out of my comfort zone to experiment with comedy onscreen.

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.

I always liked 'The Outer Limits' as a kid. More than 'The Twilight Zone.'

I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.

For me, I prefer to work on my own. I feel like I can tap into a more genuine place, and I feel like my best stuff comes from writing on my own in my own zone.

Until the Nineteen-Eighties, when Deng Xiaoping designated the area as China's first special economic zone, Shenzhen had been a tiny fishing village. Suddenly, eleven million people appeared, seemingly out of nowhere; factories sprang up, often housed in hastily constructed tower blocks.

To break R&B into subcategories does a disservice to the music. I like to live in a zone where I can do whatever I want, where I don't have to worry about genre.

I'm coming from the zone of Faith Evans, but with weird production.

Machine Zone is redefining the face of social mobile MMO games.

My best advice to young women looking to get into both travel and tech is to put yourself out there, get out of your comfort zone, and be persistent.

I would say there is a zone of R&B that hadn't been quite innovative.

It's my job... to push people out of their comfort zones. But we got to have a reason to do it. We don't do it gratuitously.

Being surrounded by diverse points of view pushes us beyond our comfort zones. And when people and teams bring multiple perspectives and experiences to the table, the discussions are deeper, the decision-making process is better, and the solutions are stronger.

Leaders who can push themselves beyond their comfort zones and understand how to harness the power of reverse innovation have the chance to become the next great visionaries.

We have to start encouraging people to step out of their comfort zones and start doing new things. Anything anybody does new, there are a bunch of naysayers.

As an actor, you always want to try something you haven't done before. For me, the uncomfortable zone is the one to enter.

Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.

There's the famous quote that if you want to understand how animals live, you don't go to the zoo, you go to the jungle. The Future Lab has really pioneered that within Lego, and it hasn't been a theoretical exercise. It's been a real design-thinking approach to innovation, which we've learned an awful lot from.

Laurie Anderson

Make a virtue of necessity.

You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

Whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.