Quotes About Innovation

You're not supposed to give people what they want, you give them what they don't know they want yet.

Don't be an example in someone else's theory, write yours using your own examples.

If you wish to undertake something new, you must consider difficulties which will arise especially at the beginning and prepare yourself accordingly.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Here's my advice: Go ahead and be whacky. Get into a crazy frame of mind and ask what's funny about what you're doing.

We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Every day, take the chance to do something new. It won't cost much more than the courage it takes to do it.

Everyone tells you to shoot for the sky, but last time I checked there was foot prints on the moon.

Leadership is the science of converting possibilities in to realities and the art of drawing a picture that others think is their.

It's a real shame that vibrators can't kill spiders or mow the lawn.

A creative person conceives lot of innovative ideas and has the potential to create beautiful life, a life full of ambitious, and a life full of contentment.

I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.

Emotional commitment is the fuel that drives innovation.

Even if you don't have the perfect idea to begin with, you can likely adapt.

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

All this time I kept my gaze fixed on hers, an enormously difficult task given the gravitational pull exerted by her cleavage. While I was critical of many things when it came to so-called Western civilization, cleavage was not one of them. The Chinese might have invented gunpowder and the noodle, but the West had invented cleavage, with profound if underappreciated implications.

What is valuable about my worlds of the arts and humanities is that they create spaces for this type of slow thinking. And by this I mean that we value the arts and humanities not simply for the material possibilities and rewards they may bring, like a Pulitzer Prize. Rather, we should value the arts and humanities for their privileging of the mystery and intuition that makes moments of revelation and innovation possible.

As Paul Saffo, a forecaster of large-scale change at Discern Analytics, observes wisely, 'Change is never linear. Our expectations are linear, but new technologies come in S curves, so we routinely overestimate short-term change and underestimate long-term change.' Never mistake a clear view for a short distance, he adds.

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

You must never take a direct route to your destination.

The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

I vecchi si aggrappano al potere e alle loro convinzioni, che ammettono tutti i loro vizi peggiori ma escludono il minimo errore e soffocano la minima innovazione dei giovani. Poi, grazie a Dio, muoiono e non possono fare più danni. Ma ormai noi, i giovani, siamo diventati vecchi, e ci sforziamo di quel po' di male che loro hanno lasciato incompiuto.

Don't be an example in someone else's theory, write yours using your own examples.