Quotes About Innovation

Steve Jobs was quoted in Business Week as saying "A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

Work ethic (chapter 1) Resilience (chapter 2) Originality (chapter 3) Childlike imagination (chapter 4) Insatiable curiosity (chapter 5) Passion (chapter 6) Creative maladjustment (chapter 7) Rebelliousness (chapter 8) Cross-border thinking (chapter 9) Contrarian action (chapter 10) Preparation (chapter 11) Obsession (chapter 12) Relaxation (chapter 13) Concentration (chapter 14)

In the 1920s, a tech engineer's "half-life of knowledge" was thirty-five years; in the 1960s, it was a decade; and today it is five years at most.

Edison said, "Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure."35

Washing machines, vacuums, drills, pumps, and electric fans, among other things, are still powered by Tesla's perambulatory insight.

Genius is only childhood recovered at will.

As the eternal child Albert Einstein said in 1929, "I am enough of the artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Leonardo was a doer. He painted, of course, but he also went into the mountains to examine rocks and fossils and to the tidal marshes to look at the wings and flying habits of dragonflies. He took apart machines to see how they worked and took apart humans to the same end. He recorded all of his discoveries in what amounted to about thirteen thousand pages of notes and drawings.

There's no such thing as im-POSSIBLE, Hiccup, only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imagination

The smartphone market is limited in terms of new features and ideas right now. That's why it's essential for smartphone brands to come up with something new to gain more traction and improve their business opportunities.

Pero lo más innovador fue que la reina obtuvo del papa Clemente X el levantamiento de la prohibición a la presencia de las mujeres en los espectáculos artisticos. Sobre Cristina de Suecia.

The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own.

I don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.

I've helped create over 400 jobs in the worst economy of my lifetime. That's cool.

Decades of behavioral blunders and ill-conceived marriages and businesses run amok had left next to nothing by the time Leonard was in high school. He'd wangled himself an engineering scholarship to Cornell and then a job with Dow Chemical during a time he referred to, reverently, as the Dawn of the Absorbency Revolution.

What I love about art is that anything is possible. Bees can be pink. Trees can be purple. It's like taking the world as it is and then swirling it around to show how it could be" -Salma

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.

gunpowder, made from saltpeter (potassium nitrate), sulfur, and carbon.

What we wish for, dream and imagine is the very framework and foundation of everything we create

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent; it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.