Top 1200 Ideas And Innovation Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.

Government likes committees... a lot. Committees kill all the really good ideas and generally all the really bad ideas. They produce middle-ground mush.

When you're glad to be alive, good ideas come. The reason good ideas don't come today is because we're all bottled up with greed and anger. We're mad.

Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social.

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Schools have never been about getting access to information. That's the job of libraries. Schools and universities have nobler missions as gentle gatekeepers. Their role is to control ideas on the loose and to present the best and noblest ideas to the young.

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.

Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity.

Having no choice doesn't result in innovation and performance improvement.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

Progress and innovation happen when you set unrealistic goals.

You can't win on innovation unless you have a way to communicate it to customers.

We get excited by ideas, and we're more excited by being surprised by ideas than we are in dictating the course of events. We've found that leads to more interesting storytelling.

Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.

Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.

Sustainable development is a proven catalyst for Xerox innovation.

We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them.

The best antidote to the disruptive power of innovation is overregulation.

Fundamentally there is a narrative around where innovation can come out from.

Somebody who sticks to his guns can be called a stubborn person or a principled person, it depends on whether you like his ideas or not. You can call somebody whose ideas you don't like an ideologist or a person of ideas. You can call somebody whose actions you don't like a pragmatist if you like them, or an opportunist if you don't.

The war of ideas is a Greek invention. It is one of the most important inventions ever made. Indeed, the possibility of fighting with with words and ideas instead of fighting with swords is the very basis of our civilization, and especially of all its legal and parliamentary institutions.

I'm usually a panster and throw ideas down on computer the second they hit my brain. I even had to get off the treadmill to write down my ideas. It's a great place to 'zone out' and think about my plots and characters.

I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just... lame.

We need an economy that fosters and encourages competition and innovation.

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.

If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus his own ideas, thoughts and philosophies.

The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.

Realities are greater than ideas. Because sometimes ideas can separate us unnecessarily. So let's attend to the realities that we have to deal with on a day-to-day basis. That's what I want to do.

Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.

Without curiosity, there will never be any innovation.

Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

All I'm arguing for really is that we should have a conversation where the best ideas really thrive, where there's no taboo against criticizing bad ideas, and where everyone who shows up, in order to get their ideas entertained, has to meet some obvious burdens of intellectual rigor and self-criticism and honesty-and when people fail to do that, we are free to stop listening to them. What religion has had up until this moment is a different set of rules that apply only to it, which is you have to respect my religious certainty even though I'm telling you I arrived at it irrationally.

Business only has two functions - innovation and marketing.

The reality is regulation often lags behind innovation.

Want to increase innovation? Lower the cost of failure.

Fear is the mortal enemy of creativity, innovation, and happiness.

For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness.

We should be investing where the public returns are greatest - that is in innovation.

Really, creation and innovation are part of the French DNA.

Innovation is born from the interaction between constraint and vision.

Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary but couldn't get the hang of the story simply missed the point: namely, that it is a collection of short stories.

I usually start from the most general to the more specific. I'll get an emotional overview for the film as a whole, trying to pinpoint what the musical identity is and come up with thematic ideas - any ideas that identify as succinctly as possible what the film is.

Generating diverse ideas requires being clear about the kind of input needed and creating multiple ways for diverse team members to share their ideas (e.g. use more than just a brainstorming session).

Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze.

The world needs more standardization, less innovation.

Have you ever seen innovation where someone didn’t take a risk?

To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many fragments of ideas that came at different times.

All innovation begins with vision. It’s what happens next that is critical.

Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs.

Innovation is doubly hard inside big companies.

To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.

Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation.

It was strange, in a way, because there were no ideas involved in the laser that weren't already known by somebody 25 years before lasers were discovered. The ideas were all there; just, nobody put it together.

From deep in the slave hut is somebody calling over 150 years to all of our experiences and all of our ideas on human respect, and all of our ideas on dignity. And I felt like that's just incredibly powerful.

Making changes to better appeal to customer is INNOVATION.

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.

Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat