Allan Savory Quotes

When thinking through who to bring together to generate new ideas, it is more effective to combine specialists from very different and unrelated disciplines rather than a variety of people with different skills sets in the same field.

'Out of the box' corporate thinking helped carry real American innovation out in a box. A pine box.

I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that.

The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer.

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.

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

I'm interested in good collaborations and in working with directors who bring something new and interesting out of you.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

I don't want a lot of guys like me who played the game. Quite frankly, I want blank canvases; I want people to come in with new ideas. I don't want the biases of their own experiences to be a part of their decision-making process.

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

My role as an artist is not to make changes [in society] but to inspire changes.

If you rely only on experience, you'll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems.

New stimuli can come from the same coach if he questions himself.

Why is it that, when we want to think outside the proverbial box, we often put ourselves in one? We gather our team in a conference room, plaster the walls with sticky paper, and wait for the ideas to flow in a stream of marker scribbles. How often has your quest for innovation peaked at renovation - new dressing on old ideas?

Games change by the different creatives that get involved and say, 'I have this crazy idea.'

When someone intelligent comes around, and looks at life around football in a different way, it can be alien.

I really want to be creative. I want to innovate. I want to be innovative, and I want to do things that are different.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change.

Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.

The fundamental purpose of design thinking is to produce something that does not now exist. And so it is with integrative thinking - in the face of conflicting models, it seeks to generate a creative resolution of the tension in the form of a model that contains elements of each but is superior to both. So the goals are aligned completely.

The best substitute for money is ingenuity.

Solving problems should be a joy, a welcome challenge to our creativity.

Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.

The problem of creating something new, but which is consistent with everything which has been seen before, is one of extreme difficulty.

We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work.