Quotes About Innovation

We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

Going outside the system seems sometimes the only way to get anything done—even by those within the system.

Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.

What roles do you want to play? Consider, for example the roles of: team builder; manager; individual contributor; change agent; technical expert; relationship builder; trouble shooter; someone who makes things happen; consolidator; problem solver; conceptualizer; big picture thinker; marketer; decision-maker; talent spotter/nurturer; mentor; turnaround artist; mediator.

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

I imagine there are orderly, well-organized Scanners in the world, but there can't be very many of them. It's far more common to hear a Scanner mumbling, "Now, where did I put that lizard?

Let's end the notion that ideas have no value unless they turn into a business or have some other practical use.

Nobody has ever succeeded in designing and building a bridge to a cloud.

Remember: It doesn't matter if you never do what you're describing on these pages, because finishing a project is not the issue here. This is about your vision and the free play of ideas for pure enjoyment.

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

Let's end the notion that ideas have no value unless they turn into a business or have some other practical use. Save them all in a beautiful book like Leonardo did. You might want to give them away someday, perhaps to someone who needs an idea. Or your great-great-grandchildren might love knowing what a fascinating mind you had. Or your biographer might be very happy after you're gone.

But the main reason Scanners are different from others, and the reason they get noticed for not sticking to anything, is because they learn faster than almost anybody.

If you're burned out, learning something new or doing something creative is the cure.

The real work in raising the bar is to stop doing the same old thing you've always done, to try out new strategies, to ignore false alarms, to resist the urge to quit, and to refuse to fall back into familiar terrain. The ability to tolerate discomfort—doing what might not feel good, but doing it anyway—is the only way you'll ever complete the path to financial success. It helps to keep in mind that the discomfort is temporary, but the payoff is extraordinary

For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.

The textile industry was the automobile industry of the Middle Ages,

No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society.

I love to invent words but even when I think I've invented one or a new variation on a word, I often find that someone else has already made use of it.

When you're spontaneous, there's always the opportunity that you'll surprise yourself and discover something new.

It is an abnormal thing to want to be an artist, to practice an art. It is comparatively normal to practice an interpretative art. But to actually make things up is not something that, well, usually runs in families or is the recommendation of a career master.

I think a great book--leaving aside other qualities such as narrative power, characterization, style, and so on--is a book that describes the world in a way that has not been done before; and that is recognized by those who read it as telling new truths.