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Quotes About Innovation

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.
~ William Stafford
The whole question of the steam engine is one of economy. It's development consist of nothing but the quest for greater efficiency.
~ William Stanley Jevons
In America, as Mark Twain observed, nothing is older than our habit of calling everything new.
~ William Strauss
America, as Mark Twain observed, nothing is older than our habit of calling everything new.
~ William Strauss
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
~ William Trevor
Solar energy, in its many forms, has accustomed us to the idea that using energy must create huge environmental impacts, either by polluting or by occupying vast tracts of land. Terrestrial energy is so highly concentrated that it can provide us with enormous amounts of energy while barely leaving a trace. Combined with the contributions of solar power, terrestrial energy offers us the opportunity to power the world while eliminating all manners of environmental degradation.
~ William Tucker
To be successful in this field, you need to become a problem solver with good observation skills and a desire to create things. You never stop learning in this field. You face new challenges with every new project, many of which require innovative solutions that you must discover on your own.
~ William Vaughan
Gigantic, willful, young,Chicago sitteth at the northwest gates.
~ William Vaughn Moody
It was our capacity to learn from the experiences of others that gave Homo sapiens an enormous local advantage, with new strategies and innovations built on a platform of prior discoveries. As a consequence, each generation had no need to reinvent the wheel, and a child could acquire an understanding of the world that a few generations back would have been available only to geniuses.
~ William Von Hippel
The bigger story was competition causing more productive business enterprises to replace less productive ones...However, it provides even more reason to worry about all the people living in economies where protection and distortion of competition allow unproductive enterprises to persist and cause these people to fall further behind, but even more importantly, to remain in poverty.
~ William W. Lewis
We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway.
~ William Wilberforce
We are too young to realise that certain things are impossible.
~ William Wilberforce
As if his whole vocationWere endless imitation.
~ William Wordsworth
Where the statue stoodOf Newton with his prism and silent face,The marble index of a mind foreverVoyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.
~ William Wordsworth
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.
~ William Wordsworth
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.
~ William Wordsworth
That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.
~ Willie Stargell
Yet he argued that even a tedious topic can take on a certain fascination if you make an effort to look at it afresh: "The subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.
~ Winifred Gallagher
Einstein didn't invent the theory of relativity while he was multitasking at the Swiss patent office." quoting, David Meyer, a cognitive scientist at the University of Michigan
~ Winifred Gallagher
Where visual artists are concerned, the Baroque sculptor and architect Bernini and the painter and sculptor Picasso were clearly adept at both experiential and instrumental attending, says Tellegen, as is the modern architect Frank Gehry. Choosing a literary example, he says that F. Scott Fitzgerald once admitted to "wrapping one of his romantic flings in cellophane" for later artistic use and notes that "this kind of heartless but honest professionalism is not uncommon among creative people.
~ Winifred Gallagher
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
~ Winston Churchill
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction
~ Winston Churchill
There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.
~ Winston Churchill
Americans always try to do the right thing after they've tried everything else.
~ Winston Churchill