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Quotes About Innovation

I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.
~ Barbara Tuchman
I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The Future of Money: Creating New Wealth, Work, and a Wiser World
~ Bernard Lietaer
I liked being able to work with all the different producers and take what they brought to the table and bring my own style to it.
~ Clay Aiken
The whole Gorillaz concept is one for mavericks; it's a way for people who never have a chance to work together being able to ally behind the cartoons.
~ Damon Albarn
In today's work arena, creativity may be more of an asset than competence.
~ Dan Miller
I don't mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well.
~ David Bowie
All creativity is a work in progress.
~ Dean Cavanagh
I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.
~ Dorothy Parker
Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however much fun it is for nerds.
~ Douglas Adams
The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.
~ Edward Ruscha
You can't live in the past, and I don't. I'm not nostalgic about my own work, at all.
~ Elvis Costello
Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.
~ Eric S. Raymond
You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven't got labs to work in.
~ Ernest Rutherford
I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.
~ Gotye
I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.
~ Henning Mankell
A good deal of large and rather interesting work is drifting my way.
~ Howard Pyle
Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's going on in them right now.
~ Jack Dorsey
I think "MythBusters" is a step up from special effects because we not only have to make things look like they work, they actually do have to work. It's more challenging and even transcendental.
~ Jamie Hyneman
All creative work has its greatest reality while it is still in a man's mind, before he begins to execute it.
~ Unknown
Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.
~ Stephen Covey
It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.
~ Cate Blanchett
If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.
~ James Dyson
This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
~ Natalie Jeremijenko