Quotes About Innovation

I'm from the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" school of screenwriting. I just like to preserve what works and ignore what doesn't work.

The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.

Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit

Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.

It's been really exciting to work on a collaborative, creative team where we got to bounce ideas back and forth and figure out the best one.

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.

No one can help you if you're stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can see the work's possibilities.

I don't think I treat my film work as an extension of my photography. There are two different sets of rules there.

There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.

Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .

The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer.

When I work on music, I never think about vocalists. They're the last person I'm making music for.

The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.

I mentioned charter schools, and experimenting with our school system, to make it work. I think that's something we really have to pay attention to.

No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work.

When what you're doing doesn't work for 50 years, it's time to try something new.

Whether it's coming from FDR or it's coming from Ronald Reagan, if the idea is right for the times then we're gonna apply it. And things that don't work we're gonna get rid of.

When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!

It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.

I always not only want push the envelope in my career but I also have an itch for going against the grain.

Can I work with corporations? Are there good corporations doing incredible cutting edge research and development? Absolutely they are. And we should be proud of them.

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

I love Vivienne Westwood. Her work is so interesting, you can always find something that's great and fits you.

Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.