Quotes About Innovation

After Altamira, all is decadence - we have invented nothing

The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.

Impara le regole come un professionista, in modo da poterle rompere come un artista.

I do not search; I find.

in a new world behave in a new way as a new man. unhorse the conquistador.

The imagination can become our own free and wild territory. When all else fails, it can offer a refuge.

A Truer, Grander Vision "You can never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." —

The science of today is a light matter….Those amazing truths that our descendants will discover are even now all around us, staring us in the eyes, so to speak; and yet we do not see them. But it is not enough to say that we do not see them; we do not wish to see them — for as soon as an unexpected and unfamiliar fact appears, we try to fit it into the framework of the commonplaces of accepted knowledge, and are indignant that anyone should dare to experiment further.

the true stature of a great work may not at first be recognized by those of a more conventional cast of mind.

As can often be observed, the true stature of a great work may not at first be recognized by those of a more conventional cast of mind.

I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.

Art is one of the few places where talent and madness can actually go to squirrel away inside each other.

We had made the error of staying small – and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.

She saw the world through a dazzling prism of authentic imagination.

In contrast, team synergy is born out of the differences between team members. The more distinctive the diversity among the team, the more options they have to creatively deploy themselves against goals, decisions, problems, and opportunities.

The more different a team is, the smarter it is.

Leaders who ignore change risk extinction.

Creativity is not so much an ability as a state of awareness.

Mickey was not merely the right idea at the right time; he was the creative solution to a crisis in Walt's life.

And what is a futurist? Not a fortune-teller or a soothsayer, not a reader of tea leaves or crystal balls. A futurist is a planner and a doer. Futurists look at trends and innovation. They look for patterns of change. Then they act. Futurists don't just predict the future. They make the future happen.

It's strange that we still believe in inspiration when, compared to earlier ages, we seem to believe in so little. Inspiration may be the one bit of God we haven't managed to kill off.

I create things out of boredom with reality and with the sameness of routine and objects around me.

It is then good to remember that artists have existed and persisted, like the snail and coelacanth and other changing forms of organic life since long before governments were dreamed of.

It was much more than bricks and stone - It was an idea.