Quotes and Sayings About Innovation
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Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
-- Aaron Levie -
What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
-- Adam GopnikSource : "The Fifth Blade" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. May 11, 2009.
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United decidedly is not an innovative, adaptive organization.
-- Adam Hartung -
There are a lot of things not going well for Microsoft right now - Microsoft reorganization appears to be rearranging the chairs on the Titanic.
-- Adam Hartung -
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
-- Agnes Repplier -
The Pentagon isn't a place that champions individuality and innovation.
-- Aimee Mullins -
An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
-- Akio Morita -
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We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.
-- Alan AutrySource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
-- Alan Greenspan -
If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
-- Alan HirschSource : Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.151, Baker Books
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap.
-- Alan Hirsch -
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit, a capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship, we are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
-- Alan Hirsch -
Every improvement or innovation begins with an idea. But an idea is only a possibility - a small beginning that must be nurtured, developed, engineer, tinkered with, championed, tested, implemented and checked ideas have no value until they are implemented.
-- Alan Robinson -
It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.
-- Albert Shanker -
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 -
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Shift your frame of reference. Realise that all you see around you, Âthe reality we perceiveÂ, is a small stage upon which you act, and within it is an inner spaciousness that is infinite. Let's now explore the infinite.
-- Alex Bennett -
Fear is the mortal enemy of creativity, innovation, and happiness.
-- Alex Bogusky -
To be young and aware is to know you’re being lied to; to know that a bright green future is possible; to know that we can reimagine the world, rebuild our cities, redesign our lives, retool our factories, distribute innovation and creativity and all live in a world that is not only better than the alternative, but much better than the world we have now.
-- Alex Steffen -
Young players expose themselves to grave risks when they blindly imitate the innovations of masters without themselves first checking all the details and consequences of these innovations.
-- Alexander Alekhine -
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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 -
While majority opinion may not take kindly to forms of modern art, that same majority has also been hostile to most original and radical innovations, such as automobiles or airplanes or transatlantic cables or Protestantism or the theory that the earth is round and not flat.
-- Alfred H. Barr, Jr. -
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
-- Alfred Nobel -
Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
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The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.
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Tradition is a challenge to innovation..
-- Alvaro Siza Vieira -
The bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense has no following and is tartly reminded that 'it isn't in the dictionary' - although down to the time of the first lexicographer no author ever had used a word that was in the dictionary.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants.
-- Amy Chua -
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How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has the stature of the film remained undiminished by the passage of time (except in a few minor details), but the innovation, the audacity, and, for want of a better word, the modernity of the direction have acquired an even greater impact.
-- Andre Bazin