Savion Glover Quotes

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it..

No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor, it can be utterly spoiled for us, for we are usually not the first. What does discovery mean, and who can say that he has discovered this or that? After all it's pure idiocy to brag about priority; for it's simply unconscious conceit, not to admit frankly that one is a plagiarist.

I can understand when people copy people of the past and make the future their own.

What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a beautiful way, which would clear the way for something better to come along.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.

In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.

Well, I like to be kept on my toes. I look for a challenge. I don't like to recreate steps that I've already walked. I like to see if I can create something new.

I didn't want to make a game unless I felt in the position to make something new and different.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

Every time you create something new, there should be questions. And to me, that's a sign that you've actually done something that is transformative.

Imagine something new, or you will only go where you have been.

You can't just be a rock star by rehashing things you've seen or done before. Bring something new, which is what hip-hop does best.

I don't want to come in and do something that's been done before. You know, for me, it's not that I wouldn't come in and do a sequel to something, but it's only if I can bring something new to the table and I'm not following an extremely strict path.

Creating something new is the difficult part. To make it and build it and get everyone to follow? Amazing.

I think people are very interested when a creator is really trying to do something new and do it with integrity and honesty, when it gives them something they can connect with and has an emotional core.

Everybody's trying to repeat the past with the new network, with new devices and new tools. Why not make something brand-new?

Every time we create something new we go from zero to one.

What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones.

It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.