Innovative Concepts Quotes

When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence.

Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives...most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results of creativity...when we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

Good ideas will always get funded, so that's not going to be a problem. But you will see that it will be harder and harder for bad ideas to get funded.

It's never too late to get a new design, and if you wanna compete you gotta visualize.

We hear again and again from founders, that they wish they had waited to start a startup until they came up with an idea they really loved.

The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.

You want an idea that not many other people are working on, and it's okay if it doesn't sound big at first.

Big ideas are usually simple ideas.

I get inspiration from movies, from fashion, then completely random things you'd never think of.

Ideas are the very coinage of your brain.

Indeed, loft aspirations produce ideas.

You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas.

People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.

The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.

Graffiti writers will never stop. They'll just evolve. It's interesting what ideas people come up with and how it all extends forward.

It all must start with an inspired, spontaneous idea.

He who today utters a bold truth that seems to shock some old institution with the premonition of destruction, and that scares men from their propriety, will a hundred years hence be regarded as a remarkably conservative man. And yet the people who stand peculiarly upon what they call the foundations of conservatism, and hold to hard, practical facts, now stand upon that which one hundred years ago was rank heresy.

So where do the ideas-the salable ideas-come from? They come from my nightmares. Not the night-time variety, as a rule, but the ones that hide just beyond the doorway that separates the conscious from the unconscious.

One of the secrets to success is ideas mixed with inspiration

I've never had an original thought in my lifeand there's tons of people on the internet happy to tell me just that.

Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.

To write good SF today...you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the strange and terrible country wherein live your own dreams.

If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more.

The greatest gift that you were ever given was the gift of your imagination.

George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that.