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Quotes About Innovation

I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.
~ Patrick Soon-Shiong
People want the answer to cancer, and they're not going to get it without spending money, because money is frozen energy that unfreezes itself when you pay people to work.
~ Mary Lasker
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
~ Jeff Bezos
He who moves not forward, goes backward.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.
~ Nicolaus Copernicus
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
~ Bill Vaughan
Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.
~ Robert Greene
The only place opportunity cannot be found is in a closed-minded person.
~ Robert Foster Bennett
Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life.
~ Larry Page
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
~ Andre Gide
If the work jells a little bit in terms of being placed in the oeuvre, I don't care - as long as it works.
~ David Shrigley
While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune.
~ Mark Knopfler
Everything what's inspiring has been created by one who could work in freedom
~ Albert Einstein
Top-down approaches do not work. The bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.
~ Iqbal Quadir
Crowdsourcing is an invaluable resource for filmmakers, but be prepared for an enormous amount of work.
~ Chris Hegedus
"I could have done it in a much more complicated way," said the Red Queen, immensely proud.
~ Lewis Carroll
All great artists and thinkers are great workers.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree.
~ Thomas Reid
A lot of people who work in computers think that the world is like them.
~ Grayson Perry
When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.
~ Lady Margaret Sackville
I love my work. I've had three successful series, and I want to find out if I can make a fourth.
~ Michael Landon
We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work.
~ Jack Welch
We do not say anything about future products. We work on them in secret, then we announce them.
~ Steve Jobs
Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.
~ Randall Munroe