Quotes About Innovation

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

Originals are nonconformists, people who not only have new ideas but take action to champion them. They are people who stand out and speak up. Originals drive creativity and change in the world. They're the people you want to bet on.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

From my perspective, I'm trying to stand for a generation. You know, each generation has designers who go along with it.

I did things with the microphone stand that no-one else has attempted to do.

Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.

If you have a chance of working for a healthy company or a sick one, choose the sick one. The sickest ones need the best doctors and it's a lot easier to stand out in a company that needs help.

When I stand up in front of groups of people who agree with me, I know I have to really step my game up because I can't just sort of meet them where they're at; I have to take them somewhere else. They want you to challenge them and have good ideas.

To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

I think really what needs to happen is the people of the United States need to stand up and say, 'Oil is an energy model from the past. It doesn't work for the planet, it doesn't work for the people, it never has and it never will.'

There's so many ways to do stand up, and I think for awhile, people weren't really maximizing the freedom of it.

'Hedwig' was pretty much all the things I wanted to do that other people said I probably shouldn't do: drag, punk rock, stand-up comedy... You know, combine them all in a thing that's supremely uncommercial from the objective point of view.

At Evergreen you can create your own major and your own classes. So I actually studied stand-up comedy.

To create a new standard, you have to be up for that challenge and really enjoy it.

When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.

The U.S. is the gold standard for clean air and clean water. We reached that point through private sector innovation and cooperation between Washington and the states to implement our nation's environmental laws.

Big successful corporations have established their own culture by the time you come along, so you have as high of a chance of changing their overall culture as you have of convincing the U.S. Marines to adopt the 'long-haired look' as their standard military haircut.

People constantly face problems they've never seen before, and they have to solve them somehow. So a million people come up with a million solutions that are just a little bit different. If computing is being done by fewer resources, there will be enormous security gains by pushing things into standard practices.

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.

I've grown up on Bob Dylan and all that, but there was a certain standard set up by people before 1955.

Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.