Quotes About Innovation

Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.

I work in three shades of black.

What every employer is looking for is not someone who can do the job, but someone who can reinvent the job.

I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work - for example a lawnmower.

Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

You don't think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.

We want to develop innovative ways to promote savings so more Americans can save for their future, but first we need to reject privatization schemes and work together to strengthen Social Security.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it ... Autograph your work with excellence.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

Now more people are doing work that requires individual decision-making and problem-solving, and we need an educational system that will help develop those skills.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

To create a work of art is to create the world.

My favorite project is always the next one.

Remember, life is all what you focus on. Learn lessons and keep moving forward towards your goals and dreams... "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

Every company should work hard to obsolete its own product line - before its competitors do.