Quotes About Innovation

It is already a great thing if the main ideas and general outline of a work come without any racking of brains, as the result of that supernatural and inexplicable force we call inspiration.

If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life.

The greatest challenge of the next 50 years, I believe, will be to create dignified work for everyone... not through handouts and charity, but through market forces.

When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.

Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.

The human worker will go the way of the horse.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.

Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments

A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it.

Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

Some think that solar work is pretty well played out. In reality, it is only beginning.

A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging!

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

Friends and family will tell you why your ideas won't work. Most are left-brained employees and specialists and NOT entrepreneurs.

A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art...I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities...tunes are merely the gossips of music.

Two bricklayers work side by side. The first lays bricks. The second builds magnificent cathedrals. Think small vs. think big.

Seeing other people do great work is its own form of inspiration and far more powerful than borrowing their ideas.

I have been able to find out what I really really want to do myself, trying out ideas that I haven't been able to do before because you don't have to compromise when you work by yourself.