Quotes About Innovation

James Joyce's Ulysses

There are never any rules, rights, or wrongs in imagining--- imagining just is.

We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.

Pankaj Mishra (#iampm)

You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you.

It will work. I am a marketing genius.

Different times need different types of leadership.

How did general prosperity encompass the entire world? Here the answer is that prosperity rises, first slowly and then increasinly fast, in all places where people can engage in peaceful and voluntary exchanges. Trade and the innovations that it makes possible provide the only known escape route from poverty.

L']imagination garde en réserve une panoplie de sorties de secours.

TV and more TV. It looks like something out of an old movie," Sam said. "Forty, fifty years ago, they were always dragging out the TV screens when they wanted to show what the glorious future would look like. As if the future was just going to be more TV." "And, as it turned out, it is," Rosa said.

Everything changed for the machines.

Every technology has its original sin.

There are as many good things about civilization as bad. Perhaps more. And we would miss them. From toothbrushes to electric lights. From clean water to democracy. From bookstores to the kind of gentle, tolerant argumentation that never resorts to violence and allows for the slow changing of opinions,…and the gradual and diverse evolving of everybody's minds. The core of what we now know that it means

Jim Dunnigan, as we will see, calls them paper time machines.)

High performance teams escape the gravitational force of group-think. They develop high levels of trust among team members as well as in their communication processes. Defensive mechanisms are left behind in the pursuit of the most creative and productive courses of action.

I don't think America will have really made it until we have our own salad dressing. Until then we're stuck behind the French, Italians, Russians and Caesarians.

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got.

I hereby grant you permission to write crap. The more the better. Remember, crap makes the best fertilizer.

It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.

Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.

Walt's grandson, Walter Disney Miller, told me, "EPCOT was my grandfather's biggest dream—the city of the future that would point the way to a better world. His dream remains unbuilt.

Just watch Snow White. Just visit Disneyland or Walt Disney World in Florida—he was laying the plans for the Florida park while he was on his death bed. People kept telling him his dreams were impossible. Walt knew better. He had wished upon a star.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we are curious—and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." WALT DISNEY