Quotes About Innovation

You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else.

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project.

I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.

It's really good to be forced to get away and try something else, find something that's exciting.

We are cannibalizing our audience by only giving them regurgitated material. Every movie is either a remake, a sequel, based on something else. Based on a former television series. Based on a successful videogame.

If something gets too easy... I want to do something else. But every album is going to be me, no matter what.

I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.

The best thing for an actor is to try it his way. The way they do it may not work, but it may inspire me to try something else.

I feel I understand now why, whenever there are revolutions, Shakespeare is what people turn to. Because whenever a society is on the cusp, about to become something else, they find themselves in Shakespeare.

When you're a creative person, there are just times when you're not listening. You know, I could be looking right at you and thinking about something else.

I learned to glitter the pumpkins for Halloween not because I went into it thinking, 'I'm going to glitter some pumpkins!' No. I bought all of these big, cold, slimy, disgusting pumpkins and tried to carve them, and it was gross, so I had to find something else to do with them. Glitter was life-changing.

I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.

There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.

Science would lead you to a more interesting life than something else.

I was trying to create products to complement the pop-up blocker. All these people were giving me their credit cards. I figured I could sell them something else.

I am quick to adopt new ideas. If there is something good, I will follow it and implement it. I adopted information technology in 1985.

Obviously, artists need to make money and stuff like that, but if you do something good or if you make good art or make good stuff, the wealth will find you in some way.

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

It's important that nobody gets mad at you for screwing up. We know screwups are an essential part of making something good.

With a lot of young entrepreneurs, it always start rotten, but then something good happens - but do you keep it good?

I like to make music and anytime I come up with something good, I'll record it as a video on my phone.

There is always something new out of Africa.

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.