Georges St-Pierre Quotes

Imagination is ... the foundation of all invention and innovation.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

We should all seek to innovate, or be curious about innovation. Innovation truly is one of our greatest gifts.

The world is for newness, not for oldness. New, new things we have to create. Then only the world will progress. If not, we will come to feel that there is nothing new under the sun. We have to create new things to keep our joy. If there is no newness, how can we have enthusiasm? And if there is no enthusiasm, do we make any progress?

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure.

Without choice, you have no innovation. Without innovation, you have nothing.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

Innovation is new stuff that is made useful.

Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

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.

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.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.

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

If you're ahead of your time, who's going to listen? If you're behind the times, it's boring.

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.

I don't live in the past or focus on making new songs sound like my old stuff; it would be stupid, and I don't think anyone would like it.

If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.