Quotes About Innovation

Embrace risk. The driving force behind our economic model at Illumination Mac Guff is designed to preserve the opportunity to take risk. Subvert the expectation of the audience. Surprise them with unexpected choices.

Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them.

Everyone's opened a drawer and been startled by the unexpected discovery of an old mobile phone that now resembles an outsized pantomime prop. To think you used to be impressed by this clunky breezeblock. You were like a caveman gawping at a yo-yo.

We try to keep audiences coming back in greater numbers by doing the unexpected and not simply following a pattern or a mold or a formula.

You can always imagine the unexpected and strive for it. You may never get there, but it's always a good thing to have.

I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.

The big lesson of planetary science is when you do a first reconnaissance of a new kind of object, you should expect the unexpected.

I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.

My style is to take something unexpected and make it into a hit. That's what I do.

I'm not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets.

One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected.

To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.

I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me.

Some of the best moments I've ever written have come about because someone, somewhere, blew my preconceptions out of the water and dropped a detail in passing that took the work in an entirely new, entirely unexpected, direction.

For each project I do, I try to surprise myself, do the unexpected, and change my own status quo. From the One Laptop Per Child, the Herman Miller Sayl, or the latest Movado watch collection, there is always an insecurity about being able to do something important. I think each of those projects makes me feel like we have progressed.

I always want people to expect the unexpected, to hear me in records that have nothing to do with bachata. 'Golden' is the golden opportunity for them to appreciate me on other records.

We always love actors taking unexpected turns.

If you're making a smaller movie, you're almost obligated to do something unexpected and surprising.

You really want to keep ringing the changes - you hope that your work and your choices make people excited about where you're going next and that that might be somewhere unexpected.

For me, fashion should always be evolving so it remains exciting and unexpected.

Doing things outside of the traditional fashion gives me the opportunity to bring a fresh eye to unexpected markets.

At Warby Parker, we ask ourselves a number of questions when deciding whether or not to partner up with a designer, or a nonprofit or brand. Is the potential collaboration new? Is it unexpected? Will it result in something worth talking about over dinner? Will it do good? Will it introduce us to a new audience?