Quotes About Innovation

As a kid, I remember my mother always experimenting with bizarre combinations of food such as gulab jamun and pickle! Surprisingly, many years down the line, I have adapted the same.

Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.

Chinese companies, in their well-capitalized, rapidly growing, and surprisingly lightly regulated markets, have become global innovation leaders.

Designing a collection with Aeropostale was completely surreal.

The idea of my fashion shows is that you can't understand where you are; it's something surreal.

If there's one thing that television doesn't really do, and has never really done, is to tell a surreal story.

I love surrealism.

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.

Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.

If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.

I surround myself, not with yes men, but people who have their own ideas and are on board with with I want to do.

Here's a simple truth: When you surround a good idea with brilliant people, it changes. No matter how much you plan, great ideas have a mind of their own.

With better gear, firefighters no longer surround and drown a fire - they go in.

Elizabeth is a good model for those of us who have inherited a church that's rich in wisdom but feeling spent. Can we who are older greet emergent experimenters with attentiveness and zeal? This is not a matter of ceding spiritual ground to the young, but of joining our vitality to theirs. Elizabeth was just as pregnant as Mary with something new.

My ancestors did not come over on the Mayflower--they met the boat. --Will Rogers

The more you reason the less you create.

California, the department store state.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

I've found that there are only two kinds [of slang] that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be passé before it gets into print.

What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments for observation or discovering new aspects of reality?

Albert Einstein once stated: "The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." It is not until we understand our limited thinking that we can choose to alter it and ourselves.