Quotes about Innovation

Jesus is often seen as someone who can "teach" you to play the piano, so that you can perform Mozart and Beethoven. But Jesus was more like someone who had just invented an entirely new musical instrument, had written some stunning music for it, and was now "teaching" people to play the new music on the new instrument. Jesus was announcing that a whole new world was being born and he was "teaching" people how to live within that whole new world.

To be human is to write, to compose, to create, and to dream. So is to think, to test, and to know why.

Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can't drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our feet. If we can't have ham, we will boil chitterlings; if we are given rotten peaches, we will make cobblers; if given scraps, we will make quilts; take away our drums, and we will clap our hands. We prove the human spirit will prevail. We will take what we have to make what we need. We need confidence in our knowledge of who we are.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

nowhere is the modern church more worldly than in its breathless idolizing of such modern notions as change, relevance, innovation and being on the right side of history.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.