Edmund Phelps Quotes

Get creative with your friends and just make stuff because you never know where it can end up.

Be it 'Dare 2 Dance,' 'Man vs. Job,' or 'I Can Do That,' I have always taken up projects that is innovative. I want to try out different things, as that gets me going.

I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

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.

Sometimes people invent things because they want to stay alive or feed their children or conquer the village next door. But just as often, new ideas come into the world simply because they're fun. And here's the really strange thing: many of those playful but seemingly frivolous inventions ended up sparking momentous transformations in science, in politics and society.

You'll find the future wherever people are having the most fun.

My motivation is to be creative and have fun. You want to do something that keeps you on your toes the rest of your life and keeps you busy.

Creativity is our North Star. This way of working and this speed, this new opening and innovation, putting everything in discussion must remain at the base of what we do.

The fun is in always building something. After it's built, you play with it awhile and then you're through. You see, we never do the same thing twice around here. We're always opening up new doors.

If you're having fun, you wind up innovating.

Innovation comes only from an assault on the unknown.

I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

We stand for creativity and pushing boundaries and having fun with one's music.

Grounding airplanes to cover your butt would never have let Orville or Wilbur change the world. We would still be spending weeks to cross the Atlantic to do business in London.