Quotes About Innovation

In his other hand is a spear made from duct tape, a smashed Nokia phone from 1998 and a selfie stick. Welcome to the future.

The greatest gift that you were ever given was the gift of your imagination.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. — George Bernard Shaw

Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.

You don't have to be just like everybody else … there is another way.

Thomas Edison said, "Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." — ALBERT EINSTEIN

True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven." — ERNEST HOLMES

Apply your own uniqueness to everything you undertake. Whatever you feel compelled to do—be it write music, design software, do floral arrangements, clean teeth, or drive a taxi—do it with your unique flair.

In today's overpopulated world, we simply cannot continue to live with those old styles of closed-mindedness.

There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in Literary Ethics in 1838, Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning anecdote, all flock to their aid. What a beautiful thought. Stay with tradition and you ensure that you'll always be the same, but toss it aside, and the world is yours to use as creatively as you choose.

You see, progress cannot happen if you always do things the way you've always done them. As long as you are willing to stay as you are or to stick with the familiar or never try out anything new, then it is by definition impossible to grow.

Abandon outmoded familial and cultural customs.

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

If change is to come, it will have to come from the margins.

We have bought unconditionally the economists' line that competition and innovation would solve all problems, and that we would finally accomplish a technological end-run around biological reality and the human condition.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.

Music may be yet unborn. Perhaps no music has ever been written or heard. Perhaps the birth of art will take place at the moment in which the last man who is willing to make a living out of art is gone and gone forever.

It will probably be centuries, at least generations, before man will discover all or even most of the value in a quarter-tone extension. And when he does, nature has plenty of other things up her sleeve.

In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.