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That men, who might have tower'd in the vanOf all the congregated world, to fanAnd winnow from the c...

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John KeatsEndymion: A Poetic Romance

It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, f...

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Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in ...

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The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalen...

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The world is desperately imperfect. Even if a quarter of the working people were engrossed in new th...

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Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to...

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The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

I'm trying to ruin it!" Will had bellowed back. "So I can figure out how to do it perfectly! How can...

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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the...

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Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.

Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fe...

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I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylum...

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I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand what’s happ...

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Marshall McLuhanForward Through The Rearview Mirror: Reflections On And By Marshall Mc Luhan

All this attempt to control... We are talking about Western attitudes that are five hundred years ol...

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The commercialization of molecular biology is the most stunning ethical event in the history of scie...

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We want to empower the doctors and patients to get all the other assholes out of the way,' Clark had...

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Michael Lewis (author)The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

He was the guy who always won the game of chicken because his opponents suspected he might actually ...

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Michael Lewis (author)The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not bei...

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Michael Lewis (author)The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will...

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When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a float...

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Whether or not people go into space or serve the space industry, they will have the sensitivity to t...

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Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors,...

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... From want of foresight men make changes which relishing well at first do not betray their hidden...

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... He who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order o...

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... I believe that he will prosper most whose mode of acting best adapts itself to the character of ...

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For no man is found so prudent as to know how to adapt himself to these changes, both because he can...

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We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our ne...

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The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn,...

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I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an ar...

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Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal...

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Saul BellowThe Adventures of Augie March

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

The relentless act of invention and innovation and initiative is the best marketing asset.

In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advan...

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I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am...

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Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriv...

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Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, ...

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Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being W...

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You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamit...

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There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more mel...

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In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cen...

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T. E. LawrenceSeven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can ...

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Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.

Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refus...

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Virginia WoolfThe Death of the Moth and Other Essays

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

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We kind of missed the boat on that," he recalled. " So we needed to catch up real fast." The mark of...

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One of Job's business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. " If you don't canniba...

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Steve and I spent a lot of time on the packaging," said Ive. " I love the process of unpacking somet...

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Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that inte...

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Unlike other product developers, Jobs did not believe the customer was always right; if they wanted ...

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When he was turning thirty, Jobs had used a metaphor about record albums. He was musing about why fo...

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Customers don't know what they want until we've shown them.

So the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it -- perhaps as m...

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Lying there in the darkness, he knew he was an outcast. " 'Cos I had some sense.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Americans must place greater emphasis on the more subtle dimensions of national power, such as innov...

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The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are no...

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If you are committed to your highest potential, existence will support you with new energies.

You can't understand depth of science, unless you challenge the published scientific data.

Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.

Innovation needs preparation, collaboration and the light of the soul. Every challenge provides that...

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Be a Columbus smell the fragrance of the new lands and discover them.

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Amit RayPeace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity

In the path of compassion our patience, resilience and endurance are often challenged. Sometimes we ...

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Compassion does not need any special preparation, place or time. You can start it anywhere and anyti...

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Compassion makes you strong, caring and creative. It creates a different attitude, a level of maturi...

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Compassion needs new approach and new outlook with the way you see the world.

Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.

Come out of the don'ts and impossibles. Manifest your dream. Bloom your worth.

The Rooster Coop was doing its work. Servants have to keep other servants from becoming innovators, ...

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The charlatan is always the pioneer... The quack of yesterday is the professor of tomorrow.

Much depends on asking the right question at the right time.

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Arthur KoestlerThe Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe

Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go...

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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an ove...

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Widespread commercial distribution of ice was so new that 300 tons of the precious commodity melted ...

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Bill BrysonAt Home: A Short History of Private Life

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration age...

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There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.

When shame becomes a management style, engagement dies. When failure is not an option we can forget ...

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Brené BrownDaring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live

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

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics

Innovation was a curious thing. It never failed to amaze him. And yet this place confirmed what they...

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Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision,...

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An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way...

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Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves ...

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What a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacings back and forth...

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A high degree of autonomy is what permits innovation, experimentation and risk taking in a bureaucra...

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Francis FukuyamaPolitical Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especia...

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All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

I’m a firm a believer in the power of free enterprise to move the world forward. All that Soviet res...

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Garry KasparovDeep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins

Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest – sometimes with ex...

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George FriedmanThe Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like

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

Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between...

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Harold BloomThe Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

The inventor knows HOW to borrow.

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Harold BloomThe Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages