John Quelch Quotes

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.

You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

I despise research. I think it's a crutch.

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don't really know what the final result will be before you have it.

We don't ask research to do what it was never meant to do, and that is to get an idea.

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

I don't think enough journalists read enough - literature, history. You've got to keep reading all through your career.

Research is creation of knowledge which leads to new and efficient solutions for the society. Shiv Nadar University, therefore, believes in being at the forefront of research. To create new knowledge, one needs to solve open-ended problems, which basically make one think on one's own.

There are geniuses, savants; I'm not one of them. I work hard, I see where popular culture's going to move, but I've gotta keep having information pumped into me. I look under every rock.

What I love about research is when I'm having a bad day and I can't write, I'll just research some more, I'll learn some more and I'll have better command of the world of the film.

A good scientist can understand the current state of a field, pick interesting questions where a success will actually lead to useful new knowledge, and push that field further through their work.

You have to draw on a fair amount of experience in order to be able to put ideas together.

You always need to be curious and study.

Making films take a lot of intelligence and is tough, though achieving Economics honours is tough, too.

Most scientific or engineering discoveries would never become successful products without contributions from other scientists or engineers. Every major invention is the child of far-flung parents who may never meet.

Any educated person recognizes that curiosity and creativity aren't just important; they are among the essential human activities.

As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.

It's not research if you're really interested in what you're reading.

The real competitive advantage will come to countries and companies who differentiate their offerings through education, innovation, and productivity.

A great idea is simply the combination of many good ideas.

The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.