Quotes About Innovation

The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.

In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design.

The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.

Be creative. Men only learnt how to fly when they stopped imitating birds.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.

I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."

Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful.

The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.

I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession.

The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

Every man is an artist.

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

There is a natural opposition among men to anything they have not thought of themselves.

No man was ever great by imitation.

If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.