Quotes About Innovation

I have the attention span of a 2-year-old. I like to jump from project-to-project.

Time has changed and artists release more songs in a short span of time and that's where the auto-tune steps-in. One doesn't have to record a song multiple times to make it better.

Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.

Mark Horowitz and I built it onto an optical bench in the lab. We spent and eight-hour span putting this optical light path together.

I don't feel like the album format is sacred anymore, and things have got to change. I don't listen to music in terms of albums anymore. I've got a short attention span.

I have a short attention span. I couldn't stay doing the same thing for 30 years.

I've had a huge career of killing off characters. Low attention span. Done that, that works, done. I can't get out of bed if I've got to do the same thing over and over again.

Korea achieved economic development in a short span of time, which is why competition can be more intense here than in other countries.

You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football.

Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.

As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot.

Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.

I have a mother who never took no for an answer when it came to her creative pursuits. She started a hair salon in her spare bedroom and four years later had 30 employees.

The advance of science spares us from irrational dread.

I'm always looking for the creative spark. Always.

I like to be able to work quickly, to capture the spark of an idea before it goes out.

When you find great songs, and somehow you get a spark in a little way, it can become brand new.

I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.

I wasn't intentionally trying to be different, but that was an element of what I naturally do that happened to be unique enough to spark a curiosity for people.

I would like to do more projects involving artists from film, fashion and music. That's the spark for me.

Leadership is happening, but it's not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling new initiatives that are under way.

I have a list of ideas that I want to do for my art series, but I'm always trying to figure out what's going to work. Ever since I was in art school, I would read and get ideas. Sometimes the photograph sparks an idea in me, and I continue in that direction.

I search for different tonalities in my taps. But my greatest pleasure is hearing a note I haven't heard before, hearing a chord that sparks something new.

It's hard to explain where ideas come from. They're an amalgamation of a million thoughts, dreams and sparks of imagination and it's difficult to pinpoint the exact moment of conception.