Quotes About Innovation

While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.

We are not in the business of being original. We are in the business of reusing things that work.

I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

People who copy what exists copy a point-in-time artifact, and if you are managing the process correctly you are already hard at work on the next thing.

The goal isn't to do work and hand it in just before it's due. The goal is to do the work as beautifully as you can, faster than anyone else, so you can do more work.

If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.

There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.

A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.

School choice is one of the strongest ways we have to educate our children, .. believes in school choice and he is going to work hard to enact school choice.

One of the ways we'll know that Work-Out has been successful is that my style of leadership will no longer be tolerated in this company.

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.

My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.

What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.

There's some brain damage, but it may be that very brain damage that allows me to do the work I do.

The work that I wanted to create wasn't being done then. I was too much concerned about fellow students, professors, institutional style [in Yale].

I work in fashion because the world is such a heavy place that I need to be in this industry that fights for five hours to get a dress.

The status quo cannot work.

Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

We have been doing things that are contrary; the things that people tell us won't work from the beginning. In fact, the only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

Success is creating something original and lasting-whether it is a company, a work of art, an idea or analysis that influence others, or a happy and productive family.

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.