Quotes About Innovation

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

Imagination governs the world.

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible...

One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.

Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.

You wish to sail a ship up stream by lighting a fire under its decks, I have no time for such nonsense.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.

To Robert Fulton: What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you excuse me, I have no time to listen to such nonsense.

Difficulty is what wakes up the genius

But to look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.

The authors present many things that are new, and many things that are true; unfortunately, the things that are true are not new; and the things that are new are not true.

Our minds hurtled outward in all directions. We became absurdly creative, Homo artifactus , intolerant of bare cave walls and naked clay pots.

I'm not exactly sure what I'd do, you know, but something interesting - something that's all mine. Something that would make some kind of difference in the world. It'd be nice to have a new name, to start with, one that's not all worn out from being called so much.

If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has allowed me to open up -- to know that there's life under the earth and that I have to let it come through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.

Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination.

There were new words for everything in their dead language put back to use. New words for the jets and their radar systems. New words for the tanks and the radios inside. But for this, for the hammer and beat of the forge, the Bible still sufficed.

I've got a full plate, yes I do. That iPod, that's nice. A phone recorder? Nicely done. All right I'm a bit of a tech geek. I have a subscription to Popular Science and I keep up on all this stuff.

It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.

It's always easier to be a critic than a creator.