Quotes about Innovation

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.

Architecture is life, or at least life itself taking form. . . the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or will ever be lived.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Christian leadership is a dead-end street when nothing new is expected, when everything sounds familiar and when ministry has regressed to the level of routine.

This world is but canvas to our imaginations.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried. Whatever have been thy failures hitherto, "be not afflicted, my child, for who shall assign to thee what thou hast left undone?

If we stay at home and mind our business, who will want railroads?

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried.

I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west. Within a few years we have witnessed the phenomenon of a southeastward migration, in the settlement of Australia; but this affects us as a retrograde movement, and, judging from the moral and physical character of the first generation of Australians, has not yet proved a successful experiment.