Quotes About Innovation

Monday Night Football started in 1970, and when it started, it was something extremely special because sports had not been aired in prime time. So, it was a novelty, and a lot of people thought it wouldn't work, and, of course, it worked spectacularly well.

Maybe a day will come when we may have to just put on a pair of glasses and see sports events.

I was involved with a sports car called Cizeta-Moroder, which was the first 16-cylinder car, beautiful. I think we sold about eight cars, and then in '92 the economic crash came, and we had to close the shop.

For a long time, I thought I'd be a physio if I wasn't a sportsman. At one point, I wanted to be an inventor, and I'd come up with little schemes.

Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting.

All my dance moves are improv. I just make them up on the spot.

Great entrepreneurs are often great listeners and they can spot patterns and pick up on small details in customer stories.

You have to learn to see the gold in dirt, which means that you try to spot people with potential as well as ideas that have potential.

When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical.

With this CD technology, you can just remix a record right there on the spot.

In Korea, the director is on top, and the power flows down vertically. On the set, I love to come up with ideas on the spot. But in Hollywood, if I were to come up with a certain idea on set, the idea had to be taken to all these different people who had to agree.

If you don't get adventurous, you stay in the same spot; you don't really grow.

Every successful high street needs a catalyst that starts making people want to come there, and independent shops can be that catalyst. If you want a new idea on the high street, you'll probably find it in an independent. I know I shouldn't say this, but new ideas rarely happen in chains. What we do is adopt it once we spot it in an independent.

Sukumar comes from a very different school of working style. He never shoots with set dialogues and scenes. Most of it is improvised on the spot. He'd tell me, 'Rakul, if this is your character, how would you behave? Show me.'

I don't really like to stand in one spot. People say that you have your lane or a certain type of music. I don't believe that. You choose your own lane, whichever one you want, then the people decide whether it's good or not.

Fantasy and science fiction are my comfort spot.

I think I've kind of carved out a sweet spot for myself by combining science and comedy.

If people can spot talent rather than the talent having to come to us, then I think you might find that the quality of stuff goes up.

What could be more fitting - or more exciting - than to restage Shakespeare's plays on the very spot where they were first performed, in the shape and style of theater for which they were written?

You can't stand still in one spot, no matter how good it is. You have to do something new, keep trying. That's everything.

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

Spotify wants to make consuming music simpler and at the same time pay the rights owners.

With Spotify, I think people are discovering a lot of artists they might not discover otherwise.

Spotify will dramatically change my industry.