Cultural Innovation Quotes

China has set its cultural industries as pillar industries.

Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it's the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.

In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.

California ... is the place that sets the trends and establishes the values for the rest of the country; like a slow ooze, California culture spreads eastward across the land.

No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.

I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.

A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.

Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed it is. California, for several generations now, has been the newest, biggest, most experimental place in the newest, biggest, most experimental part of liberal Western capitalism - which is itself a new experiment for mankind.

When politics is too slow, change has to come from culture.

Change is no threat to culture.

It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . . And that this is how culture moves forward. That culture is a phenomenon dependent on the generation of ideas, plans, notions, connections. So this is precisely what these compounds are doing.

You can do so much crazy stuff with books that isn't necessarily being done. That's how culture stays alive - by doing new things with it.

My life and career is defined by the constant pursuit of new forms of culture and self-expression.

Introverts paradoxically pull away from culture and create culture.

For CEOs today, it's all about acheieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models. process, culture and management.

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

The culture is still there, and people are still doing it. I imagine some people are doing it very well indeed. As for me, it definitely was my native literary culture. Science fiction was where I'm from, but on the way to now, I went through a lot of other territory, and I wasn't really that culturally conventional an SF writer when I started.

Will we be able to imagine a new culture of water?

Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection.

When you advance a frontier and you do tomorrow what's never been done today, you have to innovate to make that happen. You become an innovation culture. When I grew up, every time I turned around it was, "Oh, here's the longest bridge or the deepest tunnel or the fastest airplane." And I originally thought that was just kind of like a pissing contest with men with too much testosterone. And then I realized that to make the tallest building you have to innovate. To make the fastest train you have to design the train in a way that it's never been designed before.

Very few societies on Earth developed science as we know it today. On the other hand, the number is not zero - the Greeks, the Chinese, and the Maya did, among others. Once invented, science proved so useful that it spread like mold on a petri dish.

Tradition, by its very nature, includes continuous change.