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• Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Harper's Monthly Magazine, September 1932.

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  What is now proved was once only imagined.

  William Blake

  Positive, Spiritual, Positivity

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.132, Pearson Education

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• Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  "War As I Knew It". Book by George S. Patton. Chapter "Reflections and Suggestions", 1947.

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• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.16, Bantam

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• Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

  Emile Chartier

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

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• The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.

  Peter Drucker

  Innovation, Growth, Age

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.183, Routledge

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• Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

  T. S. Eliot

  Creativity, Hands, Creative

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• Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

  Jeff Bezos

  Opportunity, Two, Innovation

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• An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

  Max Planck

  Change, Acceptance, Winning

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• Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.

  Theodore Levitt

  Change, Creativity, Ideas

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• Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

  Jonas Salk

  Creativity, Thinking, Psychics

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• I dream of things that are not and ask why not.

  Robert Kennedy

  Dream, Innovation, Why Not

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• Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

  Carl Jung

  Creativity, Play, Imagination

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.88, Routledge

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• Good artists copy, great artists steal.

  Pablo Picasso

  Creativity, Artist, Small Jobs

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• If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

  Harvey S. Firestone

  Strength, Leadership, Men

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• If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Shakespeare, Woody Allen And A Certain Qantas A380" by Christine Negroni, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2012.

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• I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

  Jeff Bezos

  Thinking, Innovation, Way

  "Bezos On Innovation". Interview with Peter Burrows, www.bloomberg.com. April 17, 2008.

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• Swipe from the best, then adapt.

  Tom Peters

  Innovation, Innovative, Innovation And Business

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• Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze.

  Peter Drucker

  Opportunity, Innovation, Tempest

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.271, Routledge

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• It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

  Charles Peguy

  Creativity, Essence, Ideas

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• Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

  Bill Gates

  Science, Technology, Innovation

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• Innovation- any new idea-by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Creativity, Organization, Ideas

  Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus (2003). “Leaders: the strategies for taking charge”

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• All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Creativity, Innovation

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

  Albert Einstein

  Witty, Clever, Creativity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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