#ovation

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

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#easy #innovations #men #naturally #their

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

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#constraints #drives #frugality #get #i

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

The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something. ↗

— Michael Caine

#held #me #ovation #quite #regard

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things. ↗

— Edward Felten

#different #different things #doing #happens #innovation

You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation. ↗

— James Daly

#innovation #suppress #you

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R amp&; D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#amp #apple #came #dollars #get

We've got to simplify, pull back all these layers of supposed complexity , and get down to the essentials. If we want people to engage with government, we should use the same tools that are getting them engages with companies and institutions in private life. If we want people to care about political issues, we should give them a way to understand and get involved in them. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#inspirational #political #age