Innovation Quotes - Page 5

• If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

  Peter Drucker

  Inspiring, Business, Creativity

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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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• If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

  Clarence Darrow

  Inspirational, Laughter, Attitude

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• The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

  Carl Jung

  Opposites, Energy, Tension

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• Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

  Thomas Huxley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.359, University of Georgia Press

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• Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

  Jeff Bezos

  Business, Opportunity, Thinking

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

  Peter Drucker

  Opportunity, Tempest, Breeze

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

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• Innovation is rewarded. Execution is worshipped.

  Eric Thomas

  Execution

  Twitter post from Mar 14, 2016

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• Fighting Climate Change calls for innovation, cooperation and will power to make the changes that the world needs.

  Narendra Modi

  Fighting, Needs, World

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• Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Motivation, Life And Love, Creativity

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.98, David R. Godine Publisher

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• You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

  Charles Buxton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.220

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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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• 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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• The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Thinking, Solitude, Independence

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• Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace.

  Ron Kind

  Creativity, Technology, Use

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• Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

  George Lucas

  Reality, Quests, Immaculate

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• If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Solitude, Facts, Produce

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• Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.

  Albert Einstein

  Use, Theory, Depends

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• There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspiration, Long, Pieces

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• The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Atheist, Thinking, Creative

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• Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn't do nothing.

  Duke Ellington

  Baby, Deadline

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• One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life Is, Illusion, Hours

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• Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Journey, Intuition, Littles

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Fire from Within”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out.

  Arthur Koestler

  Courage, Purpose, Sticks

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