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Quotes About Innovation

When developing and designing products that invite people to use them, just do it right from the start and put your heart into it. It's harder and it takes longer, but everyone wins in the end.
~ Michael D. Harris
It is a happy talent to know how to play.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1835
With innovation and technology, seems we have forgotten to cherish the true beauty the world has to offer.
~ A.C. Van Cherub, 2008
New is something old that has been long forgotten.
~ Russian proverb
Coloring outside the lines is a fine art.
~ Kim Nance
Sometimes, it is said we are dreamers. Well, the world needs dreamers. Sometimes out of these dreams come visions that materialize into great things.
~ John J. Wood, 1916
The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.
~ Adam Mansbach
I do not create a fashionable aesthetic… I create a style based on life.
~ Issey Miyake
My attitude is there are at least hundreds of interesting startups that are going to get going in every year.
~ David Cohen
In life,you're going to have risk, so you have to say, 'My attitude going forward is how to I fix the problem.' And it's not trying to cling onto the past. When I look around, most problems happen because people are trying to cling onto the past.
~ Edwin Catmull
Creativity is not talent but attitude.
~ Jenova Chen
Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher.
~ Marilyn Ferguson
I think I'm a really hard worker, and I feel like my attitude is to just enjoy the process of being creative and developing and 'just throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks.'
~ Molly Shannon
When I was younger, I was trying to create from attitude more than anything else.
~ Robert Trujillo
Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.
~ H. L. Wayland
Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
~ H. Mumford Jones
Enjoyable work is creative work,
~ H. Spencer Lewis
R&D is a special class of spending that often is equated, mistakenly, with investment spending. Investments presume knowledge, albeit imperfect, about future costs and returns. R&D represents an effort to gain a stake in future opportunities before anything is known about future costs and returns.
~ H. Thomas Johnson
But only by making workers into thinkers and doers will firms inspire workers to excel.
~ H. Thomas Johnson
Running a business with the customer in charge requires total dedication to becoming flexible.
~ H. Thomas Johnson
Globally competitive companies don't eschew profit or financial well-being, but they do not believe businesses achieve financial goals by using accounting variables to control people's work. They see employees as a source of learning, not as a cost.
~ H. Thomas Johnson
A work force empowered to learn and innovate must be the backbone of a strategy to create flexibility by removing constraints.
~ H. Thomas Johnson
Such innovation and learning will come only from people who are in touch with the voice of the customer and the voice of the process. It can not come from people who act only on instructions from top managers who are immersed in a fog of information about financial results.
~ H. Thomas Johnson
The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions, which time and mediocrity can resolve.
~ H.R. Trevor-Roper