Quotes About Innovation

As an actor, I have always believed that content is the kin,g and I have always put my neck on the line to choose cinema that is off the beaten track.

The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.

When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.

You need a big ego to be an artist.

I was very excited about a currency that was not controlled by a central government, that could be a free market currency. That was all the incentive I needed to dedicate my life to it.

I'm always looking over my shoulder, needing to stay ahead of the game.

There's nothing like necessity of needing to do something to cause you to come up with abstractions that help you break through the forms.

Once, even the simple metal needle challenged the conventional thinking of a time.

You must, as an entrepreneur - if that's your position - be doing things that really move the needle.

Being an app developer isn't at all like working at Apple. There is this huge haystack of apps, and even a very shiny needle can get lost in that haystack.

If I do five, six records that sound great, I want it to come out as fast as it can. I don't care how many copies it sells. It's about musically moving the needle.

Needless to say, I like to create a unique sound for each project I do.

The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.

Maybe the mainstream needs someone like me.

I feel like everything needs to be stylised; that's always been my mindset.

France desperately needs to work on its competitiveness and attractiveness.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

At the core, Philips is an innovation company. And for innovation to work, you need to look for the unmet needs.

When I first came into the side as captain, I was accused of being quite conservative, quite negative, and just doing what Andrew Strauss did.

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

It would be really great if I discovered a cure for cancer, but it would only be a little bit less great if my neighbor did. So I am pretty happy when my neighbor becomes wealthier, better educated and more innovative. I feel the same about China and India.

I was the kid in the neighborhood that was directing everyone else. I was director from the time I was a child.

France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors.

Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water.