Quotes About Innovation

Having an opinion suggests you've stopped trying new things. And I hope I will never lose my delight in trying new things.

his desperate sale of The Rite of Spring to Walt Disney, to be used in an animated film called Fantasia.

We must show the world that, despite the war, Paris is still the capital of haute couture,

Dior alone accounted for three-quarters of all fashion exports in 1947. He was a phenomenon. He might not have won the Croix de guerre or the Légion d'honneur, but he was a saviour of France nonetheless. More – he was a saviour of fashion itself, because he had single-handedly made being fashionable fashionable again.

Is it music? … This is not the important question. The important question is, is it interesting?

Your greatest legacy isn't your dream. Your greatest legacy is the next generation of dreamers that your dream inspires—the dreams within a dream.

Too often the church complains about culture instead of creating it. The energy we spend on criticism is being stolen from creativity. It's sideways energy. We need fewer commentators and more innovators.

opportunities typically come disguised as impossible problems. And while most people run away from their problems, Shamgars run at them with their oxgoads.

Our normal is so subnormal that normal seems radical.

If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different.

Don't just go out and do what Dick Eastman or your spiritual hero did. That's a spiritual cop-out. Copycat spirituality is short lived.

Different is liberating. Who the hell would want to be the same as everyone else?

Teach a cook a recipe and he'll cook for a night; teach a cook a technique and she'll improvise for a lifetime.

Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots.

The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.

How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.

As the show's executive producer, I envisioned something akin to "Gilligan's Island" meets Lord of the Flies meets Ten Little Indians mets "The Real World." "Survivor" marks a return to a core element of adventure: staying alive.

What really matters is not the pencil but the brain of the person holding it.

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.

There is no more delicate matter to take in hand, nor more dangerous to conduct, nor more doubtful in its success, than to be a leader in the introduction of changes. For he who innovates will have for enemies all those who are well off under the old order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new.

Rock & roll isn't even music really. It's a mistreating of instruments to get feelings over.

When I fiddle around with their amps, it's because it needs to be done. I must be hearing it different to them. But you'd be surprised by how many people tell me that it works. Not that I need telling. I know it works.

Copying lies at the heart of creativity.

Many articles and books on creativity encourage us to 'think out of the box' and get rid of all the restrictions on our thinking. The trouble with this advice is that it is almost entirely wrong. It is very difficult to be creative when 'anything goes' and you have no limitations, because it is the limitations that actually encourage creativity.