Quotes on Innovation

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.

We have approximately 60,000 thoughts in a day. Unfortunately, 95% of them are thoughts we had the day before.

The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.

The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.

99 percent of success is built on failure.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Genius is infinite painstaking.

Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.

I began by tinkering around with some old tunes I knew. Then, just to try something different, I set to putting some music to the rhythm that I used in jerking ice-cream sodas at the Poodle Dog. I fooled around with the tune more and more until at last, lo and behold, I had completed my first piece of finished music.