Innovation Quotes - Page 2

• 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, Development

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

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• Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.

  David Suzuki

  Understanding, Growth, Population

  David Suzuki, Ian Hanington (2017). “Just Cool It!: The Climate Crisis and What We Can Do - A Post-Paris Agreement Game Plan”, p.70, Greystone Books Ltd

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• Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Love, Marriage, Flower

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) (1971). “Chagall at the Met”, Leon Amiel Publisher

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

  Jonas Salk

  Creativity, Thinking, Psychics

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• I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.

  Henry Ford

  Running, Years, Clock

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• Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.

  Sam Walton

  Ideas, Effective Listening, Clerks

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• Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Presidential, Majority, Slender

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Without freedom, there is no creation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Creativity, Imagination, Creative

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti”, p.376, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

  George Santayana

  Fashion, Political, Benefits

  1905-6 The Life of Reason,'Reason in Religion'.

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• I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Moving, Men, Looks

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Volume II, Book Three, Chapter XXI, 1840.

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• Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Men, Discovery, Progress

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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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  Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

  Harold Geneen

  Success, Business, Congratulations

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• Swipe from the best, then adapt.

  Tom Peters

  Innovative, Innovation And Business, Business Innovation

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• Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.

  Michael Porter

  Creativity, Issues, Growth

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• I want to put a ding in the universe.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Crush

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.87, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.

  Watts Humphrey

  Creativity, Ideas, Action

  Watts S. Humphrey (1997). “Managing Technical People: Innovation, Teamwork, and the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fear, Atheism, Fool

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  I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Change, Mirrors, Views

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Creativity, Ideas, Impossible

  Robert H Schuller (2006). “Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!”, p.118, Orient Paperbacks

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• It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

  Edward de Bono

  Business, Creativity, Bad Ass

  Norah Maier, Edward De Bono (1982). “Teaching the gifted, challenging the average”, Univ of Toronto

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• There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

  Brené Brown

  Creativity, Periods, Creativity And Innovation

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• If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 02, 2016

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