Leaders Innovate Quotes & Sayings

Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment. — Samuel Richardson

Start from your heart. The greatest journeys begin on the inside. — Eleanor Brownn

I should say a student does well to remain one as long as he can. It seems to me very doubtful that formal education could ever harm a potential artist - of course, it won't make him one either. — Truman Capote

Ow do you knock out a Denizen?" asked Suzy. "I tried it myself once or twice, but just hitting them never works."
"It is not the force of the blow, but the authority with which it is delivered," quoth the raven. — Garth Nix

His head was swimming, and he was far from certain even of the direction they had been going in when he had his fall. He guessed as well as he could, and crawled along for a good way, till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel. It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking; certainly it did not seem of any particular use at the moment. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The misery of sleep is beyond the understanding of men. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Any AI smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it. — Ian McDonald

Even though I'm in the industry and I act and all this stuff, I still suffer from self-esteem issues ... from the way that I look or the way that I talk ... just nitpicking at myself. — Keke Palmer

Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems. — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

The devil is in the details. So, sometimes, is salvation. — Karen Marie Moning

Ten years ago, we would have been writing perfect stories, but people's attention spans have become more limited in these, the last days of literacy. — Jeff VanderMeer

The reason why nothing happens is because nothing was done. Something will happen when something is done. Leaders take actions! — Israelmore Ayivor

A leader is someone who creates better ways of doing things and better ways are new and comfortable ways. — Israelmore Ayivor

There is nothing good or bad, only thinking makes it so. — Hamlet

Jake 'The Snake's' two best friends are Jim Beam & Jack Daniels. — Jerry Lawler

One remarkable part of the SnapTax story is what the team leaders said when I asked them to account for their unlikely success. Did they hire superstar entrepreneurs from outside the company? No, they assembled a team from within Intuit. Did they face constant meddling from senior management, which is the bane of innovation teams in many companies? No, their executive sponsors created an "island of freedom" where they could experiment as necessary. Did they have a huge team, a large budget, and lots of marketing dollars? Nope, they started with a team of five. What allowed the SnapTax team to innovate was not their genes, destiny, or astrological signs but a process deliberately facilitated by Intuit's senior management. — Eric Ries

It is the people who innovate that inspire, and innovation is not born of the status quo. — Michele Jennae