#ovation

I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand what’s happening. Because I don’t choose just to sit and let the juggernaut roll over me. Many people seem to think that if you talk about something recent, you’re in favor of it. The exact opposite is true in my case. Anything I talk about is almost certainly something I’m resolutely against. And it seems to me the best way to oppose it is to understand it. And then you know where to turn off the buttons. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#innovation #change

Without death there is little innovation. Extinction - death of a species - is part and parcel of evolutionary change. In the absence of this kind of extinction new developments would not prosper. In our own history, periods when ideas have been perpetuated by dogma, preventing the replacement of old by new ideas, have also been times of stultifying stagnation. The Dark Ages in western society were the most static, least innovative of times. So the fact that trilobites were replaced by batches of successive species through their long history was a testimony to their evolutionary vigour. ↗

— Richard Fortey

#death #evolution #extinction #innovation #trilobites

BE OPEN TO new thoughts, to new people, to new principles, to new ideas, to new experiences. "NEW" MAKES US GROW ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#personal-growth #self-development #self-improvement #experience

The innovative leader has to be an arsonist and a firefighter. ↗

— Paul Sloane

#fire #innovation #innovative #leader #inspirational

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

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

— Gene Roddenberry

#innovation #optimism #optimism

Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish. ↗

— Albert-László Barabási

#innovation #imagination

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#corpse #flock #innovation #sheep #shepherd

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#dreams #equals #grandest #imagination #innovation