104 Quotes by Edwin Land

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

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.

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

Every creative act is a sudden cessation of stupidity.

''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.

The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

There’s a rule they don’t teach you at Harvard Business School. It is: If anything is worth doing, it’s worth doing to excess.

Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

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.