3 Eric Hoffer Quotes on Innovation

Eric Hoffer quotes on innovation

141. The impulse to think, to philosophize and spin beauty and brilliance out of mind and soul, is somehow the offspring of resistance - of an effort to overcome an apparently insurmountable obstacle. Hence cultural creativeness is more likely to flourish in an atmosphere of restriction, of an imposed pattern of thought and behavior, than in one of total freedom.

151. Total innovation is a flight from comparison and also from imitation. Those who discover things for themselves and express them in their own way are not overly bothered by the fact that others have already discovered these things - have even discovered them over and over again - and have expressed what they found in all manner of ways.

215. We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.