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Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
-Aesop
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ORIGINALITY is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe -- you can't take a taxi.
-Alan Alda
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As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
-Francis Bacon
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
-Walter Bagehot
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Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
-Charles Baudelaire
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I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-Tony Bennett
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
-Jorge Luis Borges
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The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.
-Robert Bresson
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Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.
-Jean De La Bruyere
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Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy and art.
-Bliss Carman
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
-Pau (Pablo) Casals
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Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.
-Coco Chanel
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Pure innovation is more gross than error.
-George Chapman
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It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, Don't play like me, play like you.
-Eric Clapton
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
-Jean Cocteau
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An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
-De Chateaubriand
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INNOVATION is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation.
-Peter Drucker
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Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.
-Barbara Ehrenreich
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All cases are unique and very similar to others.
-TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
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Innovators are inevitably controversial.
-Eva Le Gallienne
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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
-Johann von Goethe
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Begin with another's to end with your own.
-Baltasar Gracian
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All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.
-Clement Greenberg
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It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?
-G. W. F. Hegel
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Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.
-Eric Hoffer
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Books about Innovation
