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Quotes About Innovation

Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.
~ Unknown
rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination
~ W.B. Yeats
The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
~ W.C. Fields
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
~ W.H. Auden
We were put on this earth to make things.
~ W.H. Auden
The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot celebrate them because their deeds are concerned with things, not persons, and are therefore speechless. When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
~ W.H. Auden
Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere.
~ Unknown
Let your creative juices flow and don't be afraid to take chances!
~ Joel Comm
Don't be afraid to do something unconventional, to take a chance, to risk something.
~ Tom Brokaw
It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it.
~ Miles Franklin
You can drastically increase your chances for success if you try lots of things and bring the best forward.
~ Jonah Peretti
The only reason free markets have a ghost of a chance is that they are so much more efficient than any other form of organization.
~ Milton Friedman
This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.
~ Ronnie Milsap
If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.
~ Gerhard Richter
There's not enough Ice Cubes out there. There's not enough Ice Cubes getting a chance to do their thing.
~ Ice Cube
No change, no chance.
~ John Redwood
Use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal cloud of probability!
~ Vera Nazarian
I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get.
~ Ry Cooder
We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.
~ Kirk Hammett
I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.
~ Oscar Niemeyer
Genre stuff is the most exciting stuff for an actor to play. I get to try new things, do things I would have never got the chance to do.
~ Amy Acker
Poetic and speculative photographs can result if one works carefully and accurately, yet letting chance relationships have full play.
~ Frederick Sommer
When I teach seminars, I tell people, Your stuff has to look like something thats out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.
~ Christopher Moore
With each passing minute comes the chance to dream, create and inspire
~ Unknown