Innovation Quotes - Page 5

I'm trying to ruin it!" Will had bellowed back. "So I can figure out how to do it perfectly! How can you learn anything if you won't take risks?

People who are driven by love will overcome hardships and hurdles in ways that people who are only driven by profit never can.

I believe Innovation is more likely to emerge from a culture of encouragement.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

All canonical writing possesses the quality "of making you feel strangeness at home.

Throw an idea into the world and its impact will ripple and reverberate beyond your side of the shore.

Curiosity is crucial for innovation. We are all born curious, but only a small number of people remain curious for a lifetime.

Innovation is more attitude than skill.

It is vital that we are equipped with the humility to understand that changing the world and keeping innovation alive require that we change ourselves.

Whitney Johnson

The pitching coach was bugged by the author's technique because he had never seen anyone do it before, and besides, it wasn't the coach's idea.

Without death there is little innovation. Extinction - death of a species - is part and parcel of evolutionary change. In the absence of this kind of extinction new developments would not prosper. In our own history, periods when ideas have been perpetuated by dogma, preventing the replacement of old by new ideas, have also been times of stultifying stagnation. The Dark Ages in western society were the most static, least innovative of times. So the fact that trilobites were replaced by batches of successive species through their long history was a testimony to their evolutionary vigour.

All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

Might one not say that in the chance combination of nature's production, since only those endowed with certain relations of suitability could survive, it is no cause for wonder that this suitability is found in all species that exist today? Chance, one might say, produced an innumerable multitude of individuals; a small number turned out to be constructed in such fashion that the parts of the animal could satisfy its needs; in another, infinitely greater number, there was neither suitability nor order: all of the later have perished; animals without a mouth could not live, others lacking organs for reproduction could not perpetuate themselves: the only ones to have remained are those in which were found order and suitability; and these species, which we see today, are only the smallest part of what blind fate produced.

Pierre-Louis Moreau De Maupertuis

So the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it -- perhaps as much more as the roots are more vital than grafts. It is good that new ideas should be heard, for the sake of the few that can be used; but it is also good that new ideas should be compelled to go through the mill of objection, opposition, and contumely; this is the trial heat which innovations must survive before being allowed to enter the human race. It is good that the old should resist the young, and that the young should prod the old; out of this tension, as out of the strife of the sexes and the classes, comes a creative tensile strength, a stimulated development, a secret and basic unity and movement of the whole.

Widespread commercial distribution of ice was so new that 300 tons of the precious commodity melted at one port while customs officials tried to figure out how to classify it.

…it is the public sector I find more interesting, because governments and other non-market institutions have long suffered from the innovation malaise of top-heavy bureaucracies. Today, these institutions have an opportunity to fundamentally alter the way they cultivate and promote good ideas. The more the government thinks of itself as an open platform instead of a centralized bureaucracy, the better it will be for all of us, citizens and activists, and entrepreneurs alike.

Embrace curiosity, be open, playful, and persistent.

We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn't about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best.

If you know one thing very well and the rest only superficially, that one thing will always appear to be more 'unique.

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

Voltaire

That men, who might have tower'd in the vanOf all the congregated world, to fanAnd winnow from the coming step of timeAll chaff of custom, wipe away all slimeLeft by men-slugs and human serpentry,Have been content to let occasion die,Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium.

I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would have done well in any generation because he would have refused to die in a corner; he would have taken the false gods and made them over; he would have taken the current formulae and forced them into something lesser men thought them incapable of. Alive today he would undoubtedly have written and directed motion pictures, plays, and God knows what. Instead of saying, "This medium is not good," he would have used it and made it good. If some people called some his work cheap (which some of it was), he wouldn't have cared a rap, because he would know that without some vulgarity there is no complete man. He would have hated refinement, as such, because it is always a withdrawal, and he was too tough to shrink from anything.

Raymond Chandler

It is never an idea, technology, market forces, or access to capital that makes a company innovative. What differentiates an innovative company from an average company is the people working inside the company.

I like to think of innovation as upgrading your current self. This upgrade helps you to more effectively deal with changes happening around you and to be able to think in a more complex manner than before.

The more good ideas you have, the more good ideas you will get.

The easiest thing on the life is to make question, but the difficulties one it’s to answer it.

Ibnoulkhatib Yahya

Creativity has often been analogized as “Thinking outside of the box.

Pearl Zhu

The quality of your life is a function of the quality of the thinking you have done.

Pearl Zhu

Innovation is a man made change that we see with a sense of wonder.

Debasish Mridha

If necessity is the mother of invention, then surely greed must be the father. Children of this odd couple are named: Laziness, Envy, Greed, Jr., Gluttony, Lust, Anger and Pride.

John R. Dallas Jr.

Strategy and culture should have breakfast together.

Honor the old but allow for innovation.

Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.

Authentic leadership is at the root of cultures of great innovation, engagement, outstanding client experiences, and growth.

Innovation lies in a creative mind

Lailah Gifty Akita

A product in the marketplace is the result of thought in an inner space and action more than the common place.

Passion Has No Paperwork

History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

Chuck Palahniuk

Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

Attachment to praise and avoidance of criticism keeps us from doing innovative, controversial work and--more simply--from following the paths we feel called toward, whether or not those around s understand or approve.

Tara Mohr

Till mirrors were Invented, Face was not You, Not Even part of Your Performance.

Vineet Raj Kapoor

The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy.

I suppose every innovation started out as a fantasy.

G. Willow Wilson

Healthy curiosity is a great key in innovation.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Keeping the door that leads to your heart ajar is destructive as univited guests would move in and trample on your feelings, leaving you in great pains, but closing it always is a sure way to spot out the destructive and innovative guests.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Come out with your unique signal and don’t always be compelled to go the common way. That is called innovation.

Israelmore Ayivor

Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar way of exposing your dreams in an uncommon way

Israelmore Ayivor

Attend seminars, forums, conferences, summits and sessions where interesting topics about dream fulfillment and personal branding are prioritized themes and topics. Get exposed to better ways of doing things

Israelmore Ayivor

Living life dangerously is the key to recognizing that you can do whatever you want when you stop limiting what you believe in.

Never despise the talents you have. It is by them that you will do something that has not yet come into existence until you were born.

Israelmore Ayivor

Flawless and faultless outcomes are not products of lawless and careless people. No lawless person is a genuine innovator. To your skillfulness, add good manners; to your willfulness, add carefulness!

Israelmore Ayivor

The reason why nothing happens is because nothing was done. Something will happen when something is done. Leaders take actions!

Israelmore Ayivor

When you come across an excellent invention, what it should tell you is that someone used most of his sleeping time as his thinking time... and he kept doing the same until his good became better and his better became the best!

Israelmore Ayivor

To become a better you, don’t keep doing the same things all the time.

Israelmore Ayivor

Go wherever the narrow way passes. If possible, go wherever there seems to be no way and create a way.

Israelmore Ayivor

Our country is a place where hope can be born and great companies, organizations and non-profits can spring up from an idea birthed on the back of a coffee-shop napkin.

Your money habits and investment strategy is not all about what you do, but much about who you are. Become the person it takes to do, succeed, and innovate.

Entrepreneurs don’t ask for permission. They act per a mission.

Innovation and disruption are ideas that originated in the arena of business but which have since been applied to arenas whose values and goals are remote from the values and goals of business. People aren’t disk drives. Public schools, colleges and universities, churches, museums, and many hospitals, all of which have been subjected to disruptive innovation, have revenues and expenses and infrastructures, but they aren’t industries in the same way that manufacturers of hard-disk drives or truck engines or drygoods are industries. Journalism isn’t an industry in that sense, either.Doctors have obligations to their patients, teachers to their students, pastors to their congregations, curators to the public, and journalists to their readers--obligations that lie outside the realm of earnings, and are fundamentally different from the obligations that a business executive has to employees, partners, and investors. Historically, institutions like museums, hospitals, schools, and universities have been supported by patronage, donations made by individuals or funding from church or state. The press has generally supported itself by charging subscribers and selling advertising. (Underwriting by corporations and foundations is a funding source of more recent vintage.) Charging for admission, membership, subscriptions and, for some, earning profits are similarities these institutions have with businesses. Still, that doesn’t make them industries, which turn things into commodities and sell them for gain.

If you are not good at innovating, be smart in investing.

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