Quotes about Innovation

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

These new times require new strategies for making faith real in people's lives. Nothing drives home the need for such innovation as attempting to connect (or reconnect) with the de-churched. Their dismissal of Christian churches is not mean-spirited; it simply reflects the firsthand experiences that led them to conclude churches are ill-equipped to support the flourishing life they hope for.

A visionary pastor is a successful pastor.

You see things as they are and ask, 'Why' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not'

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

Gringos invented two terms that are untranslatable into most languages: "snack" and "quickie," to refer to eating standing up and loving on the run . . . that, too, sometimes standing up.

To dismantle the system that sustains civilization is very difficult and takes time, but we are achieving it, bit by bit. The complex and fascinating task of inventing a new order to replace it is long.

You explained to me that inspiration is born of stillness, and creativity comes from movement.

Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.

Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.

Everything changes but change itself.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.