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Quotes About Innovation

Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that's the job I do.
~ Walt Disney
It's not the ideas; it's design, implementation and hard work that make the difference.
~ Michael Abrash
So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.
~ Karlheinz Stockhausen
Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.
~ Jean M. Auel
Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands of its first inventor.
~ Louis Pasteur
When you have something to work with, then you fly with it.
~ Willem Dafoe
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
~ Thomas Huxley
It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.
~ Thomas Friedman
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.
~ Paul Dirac
Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.
~ Lawrence Lessig
Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.
~ Joichi Ito
Some things are going to work, some aren't. But there's always something new going on, so it's fun to watch and see what's coming next.
~ Chris Jericho
It's hard to know at any stage whether a show is going to work or not. Every few years, a different trend comes along.
~ Aidan Turner
I didn't fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn't work.
~ Thomas A. Edison
I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.
~ Andy Summers
Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.
~ William Bernbach
If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
~ Thomas A. Edison
I actually try and work before my mind is telling me what to do.
~ Henry Wessel, Jr.
Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it is not a work of imagination.
~ Maurice Sendak
When its comes to music and books 'OK' is not good enough. We need creative work that floors us! That we can't believe the beauty and brains and style and cool of. 'OK' can kiss my arse.
~ Sean Michael Wilson
If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron.
~ Jake M. Johnson
Architecture is the work of nations
~ John Ruskin
Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.
~ Scott Adams
Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.
~ Starhawk