Quotes about Innovation

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.

Why does this applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

I may be weird, but creative wise I have the knowledge to know and believe in my heart that my weirdness makes me unique. It is also in my so called weird that I am also able to know the difference and then stop my complaining and go out and make something somebody has never seen before. I was just ahead of my time that was what that was. xD !

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along its shores.

The things we fear most in organisations — fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances — are the primary sources of creativity.

When we stop fearing failure, we start being artists.

We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.

Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.

With independents[films] you sort of make them on the go and there is that little bit more creative freedom. You don't have the money to slow down!