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As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all innovations, which are the births of time. (Sir Francis Bacon)
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. (Sir Francis Bacon)
Any good music must be an innovation. (Les Baxter)
Innovation - any new idea - by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience. (Warren G. Bennis)
The only hope I had was when I saw one day a photograph of a sculpture by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, a German sculptor of expressionistic style. This was perhaps the only example, Lehmbruck, between my sixteenth to nineteenth years in which I saw a possibility for art to be principally of interest to innovate some things, instead of writing a very boring, naturalistic repetition of what is already done by nature. (Joseph Beuys)
Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities. (Jeff Bezos)
The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate. (Edward de Bono)
Technical skills can be learned by almost anyone who has the determination to pursue it, but innovative ideas and the ability to express them come from some place beyond the material world. (Carole Ann Borges)
One shouldn't believe in all those so-called innovations. There is only one nature and only one way to see it. Nowadays, they want to succeed too fast, this is how they go about inventing new aesthetics, pointillism, pipisme! All this is just to make noise. (Adolfe-William Bouguereau)
Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are more willing to follow their own vision, even when it takes them far from the mainland of the human community. (Nathaniel Branden)
To innovate is not to reform. (Edmund Burke)
Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics. (Coco Chanel)
Breaking an old model is always going to require leaders to follow their instincts. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a risk. But if you only do what worked in the past, you will wake up one day and find that you've been passed by. (Clayton M. Christensen)
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. (Winston Churchill)
Google shows us that innovation requires a framework in which people can develop without targets. (Francesco Cirillo)
We ought not to be overanxious to encourage innovation, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood. (Charles Caleb Colton)
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation. (Mason Cooley)
I do not innovate. I transmit. (Andre Derain)
I believe in being an innovator. (Walt Disney)
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. (Peter Drucker)
Innovate as a last resort. More horrors are done in the name of innovation than any other. (Charles Eames)
Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure. (Albert Einstein)
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Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. (M. C. Escher)
Artists have made innovations in many areas... But whatever the nature of an artist's innovation, its importance ultimately depends on the extent of its influence on other artists. (David Galenson)
Innovators are inevitably controversial. (Eva Le Gallienne)
Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time. (Bill Gates)
The process of innovation is, of course, never ending. (Alan Greenspan)
I grope toward perfecting an image, step by stumbling step... I am an experimental innovator. I'm a tortoise with no hair. (Walter Hawn)
It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack. (Katharine Hepburn)
The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears. (Thomas Hoving)
Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form. (Watts Humprey)
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen. (Aldous Huxley)
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. (Thomas Jefferson)
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. (Steve Jobs)
We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change. (Chuck Jones)
Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation. (Rosabeth Moss Kanter)
When the creative spirit stirs, it animates a style of being: a lifetime filled with the desire to innovate, to explore new ways of doing things, to bring dreams to reality. (Paul Kauffman)
The real question is who will innovate. (Guy Kawasaki)
People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones. (Charles F. Kettering)
Creativity is not scatology on the walls of a staid, trying-to-be-hip national institution. Innovation comes from the edge, not the centre. (Bette Laughy)
Every great idea in history has the fat red stamp of rejection on its face. It's hard to see because, once ideas gain acceptance, we gloss over the hard paths they took to get there. If you scratch any innovation's surface, you'll find the scars: they've been roughed up and thrashed around by both the masses and the leading minds before they made it in to your life. (Paul C. Lauterbur)
Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things. (Theodore Levitt)
In spite of the extraordinary outpouring of totally and partially new products and new ways of doing things that we are witnessing today, by far the greatest flow of newness is not innovation at all. Rather, it is imitation. (Theodore Levitt)
Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality. (George Lucas)
Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. (Ludwig von Mises)
Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact. (Barack Obama)
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. (David Ogilvy)
Without vision the people perish. (Sir Frank Perkins)
We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc. (Tom Peters)
Innovation is a science with rules, processes and established tools that require the participant to think like an artist. Most people are steeped in orderly process and science, and they need the perspectives and imagination an artist can introduce. (Jeffrey Phillips)
Abstract thinking leads to greater creativity... That means if we care about innovation we need to be more abstract... But in our businesses and our lives, we often do the opposite. We intensify our focus rather than widen our view. We draw closer rather than step back. (Daniel H. Pink)
Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow. (William Pollard)
Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity. (Michael Porter)
The innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams. (W. Arthur Porter)
The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death. (Steven Pressfield)
Necessity is the mother of invention. (Latin proverb)
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes. (Theodor Reik)
Synthesis is the way most innovation happens in nature. (Sigrid Tidmore)
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. (Alexis de Tocqueville)
The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then intelligently asking why they did so. (Thomas Troward)
Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat. (Author unknown)
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