Quotes about Innovation

In leadership, energy is one of the essential ingredients needed for bringing any sense of new to the table. It's energy that produces excitement in others.

The older speak life and lessons to the younger, and the younger bring new energy and enthusiasm, pioneering a new way.

Christians must pioneer new ways to bind ourselves to Scripture, to our traditions, and to each other—not for mere survival, but so that the church can be the authentic light of Christ to a world lost in darkness.

As an Odd-Fish, it is not my job to be right,' said Sir Oort. 'It is my job to be wrong in new and exciting ways.

So the verse means, "Do not let the age in which you live force you into its scheme of thinking and behaving."

Artists cannot be trained. One does not become an artist by acquiring certain skills or techniques, though one can use any number of skills and techniques in artistic activity. The creative is found in anyone who is prepared for surprise. Such a person cannot go to school to be an artist, but can only go to school as an artist.

Deviancy, however, is the very essence of culture. Whoever merely follows the script, merely repeating the past, is culturally impoverished.

Cultural deviation does not return us to the past, but continues what was begun and not finished in the past.

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.

I am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.