If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.
The answer is the disruptive innovator, an outsider, who creates a product or service for the non-existing consumer in a non-existing market for almost no profit.
I'm interested in the innovator and the early adopter.
For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.
My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago.
The innovator is not an opponent of the old, but a proponent of the new.
Coach may have been the greatest innovator the sport has ever had.
I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful.
[Wynton] Marsalis does not aspire to be an innovator, no one else is allowed to have new ideas either.
Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.
He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.
The idealist and dreamer will stubbornly go down with the ship. The serial innovator grabs the rudder and changes course.
The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
I like to think that Not For Sale is the Juniper Networks of the social section, a disruptive innovator.
If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work.
The innovator has for enemies all who have done well under the old, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.
An innovator is one who does not know it cannot be done.
The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.
What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones.