Innovator Quotes
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I believe in being an innovator.
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More Innovator Quotes
There is no greater goal than to truly improve Mr and Ms Everyone's health, as an innovator that is where I want to spend my energy.
philippe kahn— NPR Interview January 2007, regarding innovative uses of the camera phone.
One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg— K 51 (Notebook K (1789-1793))
In order to win over Paris and appear, in the eyes of all Europe, an absolute innovator, the most advanced of all, I urge you to get to work with all your heart, resolute on being bolder, crazier, more advanced, surprising, eccentric, incomprehensible, and grotesque than anybody else in music. I urge you to be a madman.
filippo tommaso marinetti— Marinetti (2010); Quoted in: Lawrence Rainey (2005) Modernism: An Anthology, p. 2
Society always issues an ultimatum to the innovator; conform to this world or expect the reward of a heretic or a traitor. Every generation metes out substantially the same punishment to those who fall far below and those who rise high above its standards. Thieves and prophets of a new day rot in the same foul dungeon; murderers and the Savior of mankind agonize on adjacent crosses.
— p.31 (Jesus or Christianity A Study in Contrasts (1929))
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon— Francis Bacon (1561-1626), ‘Of Innovations’, Essays, 24 (1625)
