Quotes About Innovation

I always want to surprise myself, more than anybody else.

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope.

With solos, I don't like to be too prepared going in - I like to surprise myself.

I have a lot of maneuvers in my back pocket, so to speak. And to me, the thing is to always surprise the audience so they're always seeing something new, and not just get stuck in the same rut.

The pickup points are a natural additional network for delivery. For me, the surprise is that Amazon didn't come up with that idea.

It's great to surprise people. If you do the same thing all over again, which people expect you to do, they're going to get bored.

I identify myself as a explorer, do new things, surprise myself.

Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious.

Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.

To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

For me, what is most important is the element of surprise. If I can surprise you with every film of mine, that is exactly what I am trying to do.

I want to make myself and the crowd happy by way of something different, and that makes things difficult. I'm never playing something that hasn't been released or no one has ever heard before because I care to deliver them what they were hoping to see from me. But also I play four or five songs that will definitely surprise them.

I don't repeat that many styles if I can help, although some have become classics. I try not to repeat. I'd rather surprise people.

I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.

Surprise drives progress because innovation depends on the sort of knowledge no one can gather in a central place.

I'm a sucker for expertly-executed detail and surprise elements in clothing.

I want to surprise people and do different things and maybe do something that's not quite financially rewarding.

I want to evolve each season. I never want to be one of those brands where people know what they're going to see. I always want an element of surprise. One thing I never want to do is copy what anybody else is doing. I have a signature, and it's very important to me to stay true to that.

When we think about big records, a lot of producers are thinking of how to make it as standard as possible. I think those days are gone. I think you have to surprise the audience in 2015.

Like anything else, acting can become boring - a chore, really - if there isn't any challenge. And I like taking challenges. Just when people think they have me figured out, I like to surprise them.

The director Steve McQueen has found a way to constantly include the element of surprise in his work, both as an artist and as a filmmaker.