Quotes About Innovation

Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.

Sometimes, indeed often, we work on a theme with an unformed idea, and, when it has passed through the process, its final result is something we could never have predicted when we commenced.

I have the "thing" worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

Yes, we're trying some new stuff. Some of it might work. Some of it might not. This, of course, is the nature of episodic television. They can't all be gems.

On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.

Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.

I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.

Sometimes we come up with something great, but a lot of times it just feels like work.

A lot of the best work I've ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around my time and expectations.

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

You have to work at creating your own culture.

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.

It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail.

It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go.

The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.

My work is really simple, actually. I'm just playing with forms of changing.

As part of my research, I read a lot. Then I think and do a lot of sketches. I'll never go to work on the computer unless I have ideas first.

I want to direct and work with the youngins and the fabulous actors of today.

I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision.

I have always had a certain rhythmic approach to my work.

I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant.