Quotes About Innovation

I don't look backwards. I'm pleasantly surprised, and I feel really proud of the team and what we were able to accomplish together. But really, where I'm focused is the future and where Nest is going.

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.

If there is an audience out there for me, I want them to be surprised when the next book comes out.

I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.

My inspirations come from everywhere. It's important to look at everything and anything. I think what I create is serious fashion, but I don't want to keep my focus on that. You have to look at a lot of different things. I mean, people are always surprised when they find out that my favorite show is 'RuPaul's Drag Race.'

'The Kumars'... played on five continents, and even when I came up with the idea, I was slightly surprised that no one else had.

What surprised me most while writing 'The Monogram Murders' was that everything I needed seemed to arrive in my head exactly when I needed it.

I'm quite surprised that nobody has asked me to do my own line of tweezers. I totally would love to do that. Or, like, mascara. Cara's Mascara!

That's what's so wonderful about being in this business because you're constantly surprised. You have to be up for anything.

To some extent, I'm mildly surprised by every new piece, by the precise path that my interest takes.

It is difficult to predict technology more than 10 years out with any certitude, but what I observe is that change and innovation happens earlier and faster than we expect. We are constantly surprised at what technology can do.

You can't be lazy in fashion. You're always going to be surprised.

We get excited by ideas, and we're more excited by being surprised by ideas than we are in dictating the course of events. We've found that leads to more interesting storytelling.

I've always been surprised at the number of people who think we've got it all figured out. It's incorrect, and it's a real problem.

When ideas are confronted with reality, there will always be surprises.

There is a great difference between discoveries and inventions. With discoveries, one can always be skeptical, and many surprises can take place. In the case of inventions, surprises can really only occur for people who have not had anything to do with it.

My biggest surprises in my everyday job have to do with the challenges of trying to be slightly more responsible as a brand.

I'm a believer in just open, free-form creativity, and you never know the surprises that life has in store, and that, purely on a creative level, there's no such thing as rules.

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know.

The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.

With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.

Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We've carried that over to our brand, in the writing and the marketing that we do, and in the internal corporate culture.

I think it's good to have surprises in fashion because we always see the same things.

The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.