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Innovation Quotes


"It is better to be creative than curious."


"In the future, eyeglasses see all directions simultaneously.To be able to use hemiscope, eyes and brain need to practice."


"An innovation ecosystem is a systematic innovation methodological environment or a sort of innovation philosophy."


"If you have an idea, you will likely have difficulties during the process ofrealization regardless of the type of idea (scientific idea, invention idea,business idea, new product idea, brand idea, advertising idea, etc.)."


"In a world full of game players, the only way to set yourself apart is to be a game changer."


"To maximize our lives we think that we should get up and join in the race. Yet, we rarely consider that maybe it's less about joining a race and more about actually creating one."


"Britain wouldn't have won the war without its eccentric geniuses."


"The very nature of open innovation is to take advantage of all sources of creativity in a more open way and make a leap of innovation management to the next level."


"Challenge conventional wisdom. There is almost always a better way."


"With the power of solitude, you can actually take up a decision to invent anything."


"Entrepreneurship is all about making life easier for humanity, while money becomes a bye-product."


"Innovation is a mindset, and that's where governance comes in."


"There are other ways than conventional doors to get around my house, Ms Rainn."


"During intellectual droughts one shower of good ideas can cause a flash-flood to wash away the roads your habits travel."


"Great minds birth great ideas. Extraordinary minds birth extraordinary ideas. Transcendent minds birth transcendent ideas."


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


"The ordinary are here to fit into the world, the extraordinary are here to create their own worlds."


"Nothing is more important than a great idea that influenced thedevelopment of civilization."


"Imagination is the highest form of research."


"Creativity needs a problem, and the creative person needs a purpose."


"The irony of sensory deprivation tanks is that in order to think outside the box, you must first go inside one."


"Inside the human mind, an idea is a mental spark that occurs as a response to the challenge of a train of thought."


"The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit."


"Tough is to innovate, else you are just competing with photocopy machines."


"Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their "common sense told them was impossible."


"What some invent the rest enlarge."


"In essence, innovation is the use of something that is new and unique, and you are able to create its business value."


"Healthy curiosity is a great key in innovation."


"Innovation becomes possible only if people can step out of their comfort zone."


"People need to deviate away from the role of imitation, and start filling the role of innovation..."


"Creativity is the potential which can be unlocked and innovation is the serendipity which can be unpuzzled."


"Your ingenuity will remain dormant until it is provoked."


"The purpose of Innovation Management is not to promote innovation, but to manage innovation as a process."


"Innovation is to connect the dots - synthesizing that goes in one mind, and teamwork through collective insight."


"So many of the things I invented I honestly did for fun, out of some perverse game of whether or not they'd work, whether people would use them. I mean, it was like setting up a guillotine in the public square. You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it."


"The Board needs to extend its insight and innovation lens via cognitive difference."


"An outlier does not lack knowledge but has the interdisciplinary understanding to see things differently."


"Thinking Breeds Inventions and Innovations."


"The innovation indicators vary depending on who is doing the measuring, and how they are measuring. It's contextual."


"Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn't been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields."


"When an influencing idea comes to life, people cannot exactly predict all its inevitable consequences."


"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."


"The future belongs to those societies that treat new ideas as delicate, fragile and immensely valuable pathways to the future."


"Be eager to explore new discoveries."


"Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice."


"The narrowness of mind is the biggest handicap for innovation."


"One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him."
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