#ovation

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

— Linus Pauling

#creative-thinking #ideas #innovation #business

It is critical to learn how to listen for what is not being said. ↗

— Debra Kaye

#future-prediction #ideas #innovation #business

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

#advance #cannot #danger #every #fearing

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow. ↗

— Charles Bower

#ideas #innovation #death

His special gift was the ability to see the essence of a worthwhile suggestion and to relate it to what was already in existence or planned. Then he would encourage and shape the new project, repeatedly redesigning the curriculum so that a new department or course could have a comfortable place in which to grow and offer it benefits. ↗

— Charles Bracelen Flood

#innovation #leadership #leadership

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense. ↗

— Henry Ford

#history #innovation #men

We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#areas #defence #drive #great #hardware

Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer. ↗

— W. Edwards Deming

#customer #innovation #producer

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#advances #aesthetic #coming #innovation #nearly

As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#business #congress #constituents #customers #engage