Great Innovators Quotes

#1. Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

Theodor Reik

#2. The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.'

Eric Schmidt

#3. There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time.

Sonny Rollins

#4. Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others - are household names.

Robert Hormats

#5. We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#6. Singleton has an almost uncanny ability to resist being caught up in the fads and fancies of the moment. Like most great innovators [and investors! - Ed.], Henry Singleton is supremely indifferent to criticism.

Robert J. Flaherty

#7. I work out every day just to keep in shape. I feel like I never want to get stuck in a position where when you need somebody with great arms, you call Anthony Mackie. That hasn't been the calling card for my career, and nor do I want it to be.

Anthony Mackie

#8. It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield

W.B.Yeats

#9. I want you more than I've ever wanted anything on this earth." Sebastian took a shivering breath. "Tell me what I have to do to get you. Tell me what it will take for you to let me into your bed.

Lisa Kleypas

#10. The great ones show you what you can get away with. The shitty ones remind you what never to bother with.

Patton Oswalt

#11. We tend to think of great thinkers and innovators as soloists, but the truth is that the greatest innovative thinking doesn't occur in a vacuum.

John C. Maxwell

#12. Truth is something believed in heart.
Fact is anything happened in realities.

Toba Beta

#13. Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are.

Kate Voegele

#14. I want to keep growing and I want to be an actress for as long as I can.

Jenny Slate

#15. On principle' one can do anything and what one does is, fundamentally, a matter of indifference, just as a man's life remains insignificant even though 'on principle' he gives his support to all the 'needs of the times.

Soren Kierkegaard

#16. Innovators are pioneers, great problem-solvers; and creators of a better context.

Pearl Zhu

#17. Food - like art, like music - brings people together, it's true. It begins, though, with a private experience, a single person stirred, moved, and wanting company in that altered stated. So we say, "You have to taste this." We say, "Please, take a bite.

Jessica Fechtor

#18. My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.

Jon Huntsman Jr.

#19. Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.

Jim Valvano

#20. Intuit's mission, values, and culture of innovation set us apart as a great place to work. Our 8,000 employees are innovators and entrepreneurs that are inspired by the important work they do that is delighting customers and improving the financial lives of millions of people.

Brad D. Smith

#21. Apology is the most courageous gesture we can make to ourselves.

John Kador

#22. What's chivalrous about saying you've seen a rhinoceros?

Eugene Ionesco

#23. To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.

J. M. W. Turner

#24. There are a lot of places," I reply, "that I thought I'd never go.

Jodi Picoult

#25. Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.

Eric Hoffer

#26. If you care about what you do, you don't want to let people down.

Michael Learned