Quotes About Innovation

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Today changes must come fast; and we must adjust our mental habits, so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight.... We must assume that there is probably a better way to do almost everything. We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Human Salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.

I do not seek. I find.

The life of the creative man is led, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that others are behind the time.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it. What another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.

Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives . . . most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results of creativity . . . when we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a desk.

What a blessed thing it is that nature, when she invented, manufactured and patented her audiors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

Nature, when she invented, manufactured and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

The Pilgrims didn't have any experience when they landed here. Hell, if experience was that important, we'd never have anybody walking on the moon.

There is only one answer to destruc-tiveness and that is creativity.

You can't have genius without patience.

Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.

They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.