Quotes About Innovation

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble.

Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purist ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

In advertising not to be different is virtually suicidal.

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

America once had the clarity of a pioneer axe.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish.

Each of us is an artist, capable of conceiving and creating a vision from the depths of our being.

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Develop an infallible technique and then place yourself at the mercy of inspiration.

How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?

Form ever follows function.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

Pioneers did not produce original works of art, because they were creating original human environments; they did not imagine Utopias because they were shaping them.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved die absolute rejection of authority.

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

Boredom is simply the lack of imagination.

The whole history of the Canadian north can be divided into two periods - before and after the aeroplane.

Give us men to match our mountains, Give us men to match our plains: Men with empires in their purpose And new eras in their brains.

Competition means decentralized planning by many separate persons.