Insightful Quotes for Innovation
 

"The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity."
~ Thomas Carlyle



"Creation is a drug I can’t do without."
~Cecil B. Demille

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
~ Albert Einstein


 

"Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Where there is no vision a people perish."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson



"There is nothing permanent except change."
~ Heraclitus

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come."
~ Victor Hugo



"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."
~ William James

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
~ Alan Kay

"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.  And man can be as big as he wants.  No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."
~ John F. Kennedy

"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."
~ Charles F. Kettering



 

"Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
~ Harold R. McAlindon

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
~ Margaret Mead

"Necessity, who is the mother of invention."
~ Plato, The Republic

"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it."
~ Alan Saporta



 

"You see things and you say 'Why?'; but I dream things that never were and I say 'Why not?'"
~ George Bernard Shaw

"No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise."
~ Woodrow Wilson