Innovation Quotes
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"I wish my stove came with a Save As button like Word has. That way I could experiment with my cooking and not fear ruining my dinner."
"Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us."
"Nobody sleeps at the Inn of Innovation. You don't wake up, but you do #startup."
"Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move."
"You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too."
"The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour."
"Do not get obsolete like an old technology, keep innovating yourself."
"Creating a better futureRequires creativity in the present."
"life is a continous journey of transformation"
"I wokeup in morning and saw, world has move on"
"This is why evolution appears to have a direction: there are many more ways to become complex than to become simpler."
"One of the most beautiful things about an adaptation is that once it has come into existence, it can be used for something very different than its original function."
"Almost as soon as the Earth had oceans, there were simple cells, similar to the ones we call bacteria and archaea."
"Three and a half billion years ago, Earth's surface consisted of air, ocean, rocks, and bacteria. If you went back in a time machine and got out, you would have fried to a crisp a few minutes after you suffocated."
"The bacterial world persisted, gradually building up an oxygenated atmosphere and making carbon dioxide into organic materials, for a couple of billion years. Infant Gaia had a bacterial body."
"The colonial growth form allowed a new step of evolutionary innovation. The different cells in the colony could start specializing on different jobs."
"Bones are a way of storing calcium, which can be scarce in fresh water or in an animal's diet. If your heart muscles need calcium, they rob it from your bones. The evolutionary diversification of bony fishes might have been made possible because bones allowed them nutritional flexibility, not just flexibility of motion."
"To live on land, organisms needed vastly greater amounts of complexity."
"External skeletons are not strong enough to support the weight of large animals, and to this day terrestrial arthropods are small."
"Plants needed a new kind of support structure if they were to survive on land. ...The evolutionary innovation that allowed the first land plants to grow up into the air was xylem."
"It is the evaporation of water from plants that keeps them from overheating in the sunshine. ...Their evolutionary innovation was that the epidermis cells, with their waxy cuticles, contained stomata..."
"Insects and spiders had already been walking on land for millions of years before the first fish dragged itself out of the water during the Devonian period..."
"Insects were the first animals to fly, evolving the ability to do so at least 150 million years before reptiles and birds."
"A rich oxygen atmosphere would be much denser than today's... dense enough that delicate wings could... support the weight of a huge [wingspan a little over two feet] dragonfly."
"Most of the vegetation on the surface of the Earth had died during the Permian extinction."
"For the first three million... years, during the australopithecine era of human evolution, human brains were no larger than those of chimpanzees. That is, for 60 percent of human evolutionary history, intelligence was not a particulalarly important factor."
"The evolutionary innovation that set the human lineage apart from other mammals, from the very beginning, was bipedalism. Humans have been walking on two legs for over five million years..."
"Anthropologist Richard Wrangham points out that cooking either meat or vegetables makes them easier to eat and increases their nutritional value. Once humans began to cook their food, more nutrients were available for the continued evolutionary increase in brain size."
"Innovation, reinventing the invention"
"Not having a recognised brand & trying to stand out in the market is like going to the market without any goods."
"Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out."
"Proformas rarely perform; missed projections are more often the norm. Still, we skew them up high, we miss but we try, for proformas which rarely perform."
"And it is change that always provides the opportunity for the new and different. Systematic innovation therefore consists in the purposeful and organized search for changes, and in the systematic analysis of the opportunities such changes might offer for economic or social innovation."
Peter F. Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles
"There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combinationthey produce more hues than can ever been seen.There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations ofthem yield more flavours than can ever be tasted."
"Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future."
"Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate."
"History is made by those who see beyond what already exists. They see all the things that don’t yet."
"We are reaching levels of high experiential comfort and our standards will keep rising. We want to feel, we want to experience, we want to connect, we want intelligence, and we want to play; Ladies and Gentlemen: A new theatre is on its way."
"Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth."
"If you are someone who dislikes, condemns and rejects new ideas, you aren’t fit to lead."
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
"All the tools, techniques and technology in the world are nothing without the head, heart and hands to use them wisely, kindly and mindfully"
"Without Creativity there is no INNOVATION!"
"An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor."
"Innovation is finding the door of opportunity and revealing its beauty."
"Wonder is the starter kit for innovation"
"5 Ways To Build Your Brand on Social Media:1 Post content that add value2 Spread positivity3 Create steady stream of info4 Make an impact5 Be yourself"
"Seldom do we embrace a new idea, especially one of a religious nature."
Eli Of Kittim, The Little Book of Revelation: The First Coming of Jesus at the End of Days
"Transforming the complex to the simple is pure genius."
"Your mission or purpose is like a magnet that keeps you moving is a well established direction"
"Your Core Values are the "glue" that holds your business together."
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