#ovation

Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders. They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete ↗

— Steven Johnson

#innovation #nature

Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies. ↗

— Steven Johnson

#hobbies #innovation #self-improvement #nature

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

— Coco Chanel

#fashion #innovation #classics

We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us. ↗

— Alan Autry

#dedication #education #innovation #need #task

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#creatures #first #innovations #living #living creatures

Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#fantastic #financial #five #get #had

Any good music must be an innovation. ↗

— Les Baxter

#any #good #good music #innovation #must

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#capacity #create #endows #entrepreneurship #innovation

We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery. ↗

— Donald Evans

#development #discovery #economy #education #ensure

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another. ↗

— George Carlin

#audience #audience members #become #commonplace #far