Quotes About Innovation

Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.

Technology has brought many possibilities in education and health that are key to women.

Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

I want to encourage more young women to get involved in coding, because it's important for them to be able to help shape the future, and coding is the future.

I don't think women need another black bag. Everybody has a black bag already, so I thought this season (needs) color.

I believe in the unlimited power of women in the context of science and engineering.

Yes. I was the first female colonel. I enjoyed being that kind of role model for young women watching the show. A woman can be a colonel! A woman can be in charge! Those were new ideas then.

We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more.

Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

Soccer was invented by man but perfected by women.

I kind of like to be a sponge, in a way. So everywhere that I am, I like to keep an open mind and just get ideas from everything.

I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.

I was thinking about what would it be, what would the characters be like, and it just suddenly dawned on me that, hey, nobody is doing an underseas show. So I started drawing these weird invertebrate animals, various characters like crawfish and starfish and squids and sponge.

One of the best programs that the federal government sponsors is the Small Business Innovation Research program, in which more than 2.5 percent of federal research and development funding at the largest agencies goes directly to small businesses.

I'm all about spontaneity. I think it makes for greatness.

I hope I haven't grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don't want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I'm holding on to that.

You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.

My great overall skill is spontaneity and winging it!

There is spontaneity to my work.

Big Pop songs are born of inspiration and spontaneity. The question becomes how do you create spontaneity when you're going into the studio five days a week?

I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.

U.N.-orchestrated gatherings are typically the death of all spontaneity and innovation.