A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, ...who never look backward to their ancestors.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He was good-natured to a degree of weakness, even to tears, upon the slightest occasions. Exceedingly timorous, both personally an...d politically, dreading the least innovation, and keeping, with a scrupulous timidity, in the beaten track of business as having the safest bottom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the ruts of th...e last generation, but that wise men thinking for themselves and heartily seeking the good of mankind, and counting the cost of innovation, should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life; that the moral nature should be addressed in the school-room, and children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Both cultures encourage innovation and experimentation, but are likely to reject the innovator if his innovation is not accepted b...y audiences. High culture experiments that are rejected by audiences in the creator's lifetime may, however, become classics in another era, whereas popular culture experiments are forgotten if not immediately successful. Even so, in both cultures innovation is rare, although in high culture it is celebrated and in popular culture it is taken for granted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For all of us there will be those irreconcilable injuries and humiliations that persist and infiltrate into adult existence. They ...may become the seeds for those monotonous repetitions of hurting others and getting hurt ourselves,...Or the leftover traumas can be incentives for innovation and change,...the opportunity to rewrite the scripts, introduce a few new characters, get rid of one or two, perhaps even change the ending, and free the lover and jester inside us all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Technological innovation has done great damage ... to eating habits. Food is now available in such unpleasant forms that one frequ...ently finds smoking between courses to be an aid to digestion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »