Quotes About Innovation

Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor.

The first successful salesperson was not a man, it was Eve.

I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine.

No two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything like it before, and never will be again.

It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.

A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.

There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.

Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.

Make no mistake about it. The first man who will walk on the moon has already been born. I hope in America.

In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened.

A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.

... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)

Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.

Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

You have to be deviant if you're going to do anything new.

I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.

Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.

Some are skeptical. My mom thought the guitar was going to fizzle out in two weeks, that it was just a fad-and that was in 1958.

This is actually something no one knows, but my mom was really the one who created the entire style for 'Teen Witch.' I'm dead serious.

I make money from touring and selling merchandise, and I honestly believe if you put effort into something and you execute properly, you don't necessarily have to go through the traditional ways.

Being fresh is more important than having money.