Edwin Land Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.”
-- Edwin Land

#Business #Ideas #Entrepreneur

“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”
-- Edwin Land

#Inspiring #Courage #Failure

“We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.”
-- Edwin Land

#Mean #Years #Common Sense

“Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.”
-- Edwin Land

#Important #Impossible #Projects

“If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.”
-- Edwin Land

#Dream #Emotional #Thinking

“Politeness is the poison of collaboration.”
-- Edwin Land

#Teamwork #Decision #Collaboration

“Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.”
-- Edwin Land

#Marketing #Advertising

“Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.”
-- Edwin Land

#Creativity #Stupidity

“Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.”
-- Edwin Land

#Years #World #Definitions

“This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals”
-- Edwin Land

#Health #Animal #Brain

“As I review the nature of the creative drive in the inventive scientists that have been around me, as well as in myself, I find the first event is an urge to make a significant intellectual contribution that can be tangible embodied in a product or process.”
-- Edwin Land

#Creativity #Creative #Intellectual

“There is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity.”
-- Edwin Land

#Creativity #Individuality #Groups

“Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.”
-- Edwin Land

#Individuality #Mind #Originality

“My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.”
-- Edwin Land

#Important #May #Impossible

“A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.”
-- Edwin Land

#Preparation #World #Unexpected

“The bottom line is in heaven!”
-- Edwin Land

#Heaven #Lines #Bottom

“Don't do anything that someone else can do.”
-- Edwin Land

“Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his art. He has the painting or sculpture before him. What we have tried to do is to provide a medium for "artistic expression" to anyone with only a reasonable amount of time. By giving him a camera system with which he need only control his selection of focus, composition and lighting, we free him to select the moment and to criticize immediately what he has done. We enable him to see what else he wants to do on the basis of what he has just learned.”
-- Edwin Land

#Photography #Art #Expression

“We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't hard.”
-- Edwin Land

#Believe #Thinking #Years

“We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's just like bringing up a child. You don't stop after you've had it.”
-- Edwin Land

#Children #Color #Practice

“Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.”
-- Edwin Land

#Science #Method

“An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.”
-- Edwin Land

#Business #Accepted #Invention

“Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.”
-- Edwin Land

#Hard Work #Excess #Anything Worth Doing

“The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.”
-- Edwin Land

#Inspirational Life #Vision #Important

“I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.”
-- Edwin Land

#Engineering #Long #Creative

“Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.”
-- Edwin Land

#Art #Science #Art And Science

“It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true not only for those who have not previously been acquainted with the problem, but also for those who have worked over it for years.”
-- Edwin Land

#Years #Research #Problem

“Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.”
-- Edwin Land

#Science #Rooms #Obstacles

“I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company.”
-- Edwin Land

#Believe #Organization #Research

“Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.”
-- Edwin Land

#Research