Innovation proverbs

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◆ All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

- Frank Zappa99

◆ History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

- Chuck Palahniuk99

◆ If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

- Peter F. Drucker99

◆ Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

- J.K. Rowling99

◆ 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.

- Robin S. Sharma99

◆ Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

- Roger Von Oech99

◆ The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

- Aldous Huxley99

◆ It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.

- Gene Roddenberry99

◆ I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.

- Henry Ford99

◆ Chance favors the connected mind.

- Steven Johnson99

◆ 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.

- Ayn Rand99

◆ Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?

- Frank Herbert99

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

- Peter F. Drucker99

◆ The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank.

- Steven Johnson99

◆ In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.

- Eric Hoffer99