Innovative Ideas Quotes

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

It’s not the man; it’s the plan.

I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?'

No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept. For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form new opinions.

I believe that I've got a unique knowledge and understanding of this game, and I'm able to see it differently than a lot of people.

There's something very cool about that indie spirit that I try to hang on to even now with the bigger films that I'm working on.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

I wasn't intentionally trying to be different, but that was an element of what I naturally do that happened to be unique enough to spark a curiosity for people.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

Dad was an outstanding leader. He'd bring in top thinkers from a wide array of fields - how to fix the Detroit schools, for example. I watched him in these meetings. He listened and probed.

The most interesting people to me are entrepreneurs. As someone who's owned my own business for over a decade, I am always so inspired by people who are building things.

Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

Imagination is the beginning of reality.

Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.

You can't have 'yes' people around you.

American Made is not just an event. It's a movement to spotlight and support the next generation of creative entrepreneurs who are turning their passion for making into thriving small businesses.

I wouldn’t be Einstein if I kept quiet.

The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.