Quotes About Innovation

Por qué hice tal y cual cosa?" está muy bien. Pero qué hay con "¿De qué otra forma podría haberlo hecho?".

Por qué hice tal y cual cosa?' está muy bien. Pero qué hay con '¿De qué otra forma podría haberlo hecho?

I advise you to avoid the confused thinking which results from accepting second-hand ideas, and do some thinking for yourself.

No vale la pena agitar el frasco de las garrapatas. Esto es un juego, como todo lo que vale en la literatura. La palabra es una y la misma; la novela, digan lo que digan, viene de siempre y continúa. Rompiéndola, prevalece. En efecto, si no hay nada nuevo bajo el sol, es porque lo viejo vale para la novedad.

Semmelweis reflex: The tendency to reject new evidence or new knowledge because it contradicts established norms, beliefs or paradigms

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

To continue in one path is to go backward.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.

Georgian folk music has more new musical ideas than all the contemporary music. [Los Angeles Times. 26.02.1990]

The perfection of performance has escalated to the extent that the music itself is threatened with relegation.

The more art is controlled, limited, worked over, the more it is free.

Don't be confined by the self you have experienced, the self you know. Going beyond what you know and what you have experienced, challenge your brain with new questions and give it new tasks—then it will begin to manifest infinite creativity.

Many of the most profound discoveries were reported to have come through intuition rather than sequential analysis processed by linguistic understanding.

History tells us that revolution is not an isolated event because it is not about overthrowing governments, it is about spreading new ideas.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.

Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.

Officers have been trying for hundreds of years to outsmart soldiers and have still not learned that it cannot be done. We can always count on the native ingenuity of the American GI to save us from ourselves, and to win wars.

that solving problems is what leaders do. The day you are not solving problems or are not up to your butt in problems is probably a day you are no longer leading.

Imagination should be used not to escape reality, but to create it.