Innovation Inspiration Quotes

Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water. ~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Authentic leaders inspire us to engage with each other in powerful dreams that make the impossible possible. We are called on to persevere despite failure and pursue a purpose beyond the paycheck. This is at the core of innovation. It requires aligning the dreams of each individual to the broader dream of the organization. ~ Henna Inam

What is the "Once upon a time" of your brand story? Ask yourself this: "How does what I'm building help consumers close the gap between who they are today and who they want to be tomorrow? ~ Laura Busche

Wonder is the starter kit for innovation ~ Tara Lemméy

In today's saturated marketplace, you'll go nowhere selling a "bunch of features." We are in the business of disrupting the market with brands that matter. ~ Laura Busche

Your money habits and investment strategy is not all about what you do, but much about who you are. Become the person it takes to do, succeed, and innovate. ~ Amah Lambert

People change, and so do their aspirations, and so should brands. ~ Laura Busche

Your brand story's "happily ever after" involves open wallets. ~ Laura Busche

Success doesn't suddenly fall out of the sky into your lap. It's the result of taking one step, each day, in the direction of your dreams. ~ Jennifer Ritchie Payette

The greatest discovery is self-discovery. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Everything and everyone represents at least one brand. Therefore, to brand or not to brand is not even a question. ~ Laura Busche

Agility is the ability to adapt and respond to change ... agile organizations view change as an opportunity, not a threat. ~ Jim Highsmith

Do everything in your power to make customers go confidently in the direction of their purchase intention. ~ Laura Busche

Research conquers doubt. It aligns everyone around the incontestable. Research is the key to clarity - in startups, enterprises, and life itself. ~ Laura Busche

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. ~ Charles Baudelaire

People who are driven by their values will overcome hurdles, difficulties, and obstacles in ways that people driven only by profit will never be able to ~ Simon S. Tam

Customers often know more about your products than you do. Use them as a source of inspiration and ideas for product development. ~ David J. Greer

Nothing stimulates the brain cells like a desire to wipe out the other side. ~ Lothar-Günther Buchheim

So, you don't have money to invest in your brand? You do have money for damage control, right?

Here's the thing: anyone can make your brand inferior in your absence. ~ Laura Busche

Brands play in an exciting sandbox of symbolic meanings. ~ Laura Busche

Never fight any progressive moves unless you can move faster to achieve something different. ~ Ferdinard S. Lawson

I faced people from all walks of business who fully disregarded design (though they were completely influenced by it). I also met fine artists who drowned in their own work and the dense creative universe in their minds.

Then I met designers. And instantly fell in love. Let me tell you why.

Designers are familiar with critiques. They not only tolerate them but actively look out for them. They honestly believe in iterations and learn to edit down their work. They embrace simplicity and create beauty based on requirements other than their own. Design education teaches you to run away from assumptions and to have the stomach to scrap your work often.

I'm bringing this up because it's time to bridge the gap between design and business. ~ Laura Busche

Money can merely buy/acquire/get you what is already available. Without it one has an unlimited opportunity to innovate and create anything, ~ Nikhil Sharda

Make sure you test your brand story's recipe with whomever you're cooking it for. ~ Laura Busche

Brand and product don't compete. Brand is product, and everything else conforming to the unique story that consumers create when they think of you. ~ Laura Busche

People relate to people, and if your brand feels like people, they'll relate to you, too. ~ Laura Busche

Giving 100% doesn't mean that every day you will accomplish more than the last, it means you give your best attempt each day. Some days you will struggle, some days will be hard but if you focus solely on doing what you can in each moment, the day will not be lost. Focus on doing what you can when you can. ~ Avina Celeste

Our homes travel with us. They are wherever we feel loved and accepted. ~ Kamand Kojouri

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack. ~ Katharine Hepburn

I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things. ~ Steve Jobs

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly. ~ Carl R. Rogers

When you allow the spirit to speak through you and empower it with love, you will discover things you didn't know you knew. ~ Charbel Tadros

Dear God, please don't let me be too busy to recognize your blessings, or hear your voice. ~ Germany Kent

I'm not here only just for a visit; but I'm here cuz' i knew I'm HOME. ~ Kent Ian N. Cny

Inspiration takes many forms, but it's rarely pure. ~ Hilton Als

However, Americans have created a system in which wealth is created with hard work, innovation, talent and enterprise. People who display these qualities move up in life. ~ Chetan Bhagat

Who can ever measure the benefit of a mother's inspiration? ~ Charles R. Swindoll

A close contact with nature has been a focus of my life since childhood and has been my inspiration both professionally and personally. I believe that for most of us, most of the time, it is in the everyday experience of beauty, certainly in nature and in music, that we sense a heaven half-revealed and come closest to the true meaning of reality. ~ Densey Clyne

When the wind of change blows, some people build walls, others build windmills. ~ Chinese Proverb

We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve. ~ Naveen Jain

He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands. ~ Benedict Of Nursia

It's not always easy to find the motivation to push yourself to higher limits. But when you surround yourself with people who inspire you, you'll find that their attitudes and their outlook on life are contagious. You will learn from their mistakes and their successes. You will gain a wealth of knowledge and wisdom, which will only help you grow and get you closer to your own goals. ~ Anonymous

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty. ~ Muhammad Yunus

There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere. ~ Edward Abbey

If you find it difficult to accept failure then you simply won't get any innovation because employees will be too frightened ~ Terry Leahy

You need to have a beginner's mind to create bold innovation. ~ Marc Benioff

Positive thinking gives positive energy. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is a dream of mankind to fly like a bird. ~ Marcus Fischer

The business's potential depends on how it unleashes its information potential and talent potential. ~ Pearl Zhu

Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time. ~ Rebecca Wells

We must not allow the academic prejudices bred by Hegelian ideology, anti-clericalism, anti-Semitism and nineteenth-century intellectual fashions to distort our view of these texts. All the internal evidence shows that those who set down and conflated these writings, and the scribes who copied them when the canon was assembled after the return from Exile, believed absolutely in the divine inspiration of the ancient texts and transcribed them with veneration and the highest possible standards of accuracy, including many passages which they manifestly did not understand. Indeed, the Pentateuch text twice gives solemn admonitions, from God himself, against tampering: 'Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish aught from it.'25 ~ Paul Johnson

Shogo. I know I'm repeating myself, but I have to say it. If I were Keiko, this is what I'd say. Please Live. Talk, think, act. And sometimes listen to music ... Look at paintings at times to be moved. Laugh a lot, and at times, cry. And if you find a wonderful girl, then you go for her and love her. ~ Koushun Takami

Orlando, who had just dipped her pen in the ink, and was about to indite some reflection upon the eternity of all things, was much annoyed to be impeded by a blot, which spread and meandered round her pen. . . . She dipped it again. The blot increased. She tried to go on with what she was saying but no words came. Next she began to decorate the blot with wings and whiskers, till it became a round-headed monster, something between a bat and a wombat. But as for writing poetry with Basket and Bartholemew in the room, it was impossible. No sooner had she said 'impossible' than, to her astonishment and alarm, the pen began to curve and caracole with the smoothest possible fluency. Her page was written in the neatest sloping Italian hand with the most insipid verses she had ever read in her life:

I am myself but a vile link Amid life's weary chain, But I have spoken hallowed words, Oh, do not say in vain!
. . . . .
She was so changed, the soft carnation cloud Once mantling o'er her cheek like that which eve Hangs o'er the sky, glowing with roseate hue, Had faded into paleness, broken by Bright burning blushes, torches of the tomb,

but here, by an abrupt movement she spilt the ink over the page and blotted it from human sight she hoped for ever. She was all of a quiver, all of a stew. Nothing more repulsive could be imagined than to feel the ink flowing thus in cascades of involuntary inspiration. ~ Virginia Woolf

To catch the rainbows of your dreams, love yourself, love what you do, and how you do. ~ Amit Ray

I had these glorified ideas about San Francisco and its drug culture - I thought inspiration would just hit me and I would get these San Francisco drugs in my system and all of a sudden an amazing record would come out. But that's not really what happened at all. ~ Zachary Cole Smith

Great leaders create more leaders, not followers. ~ Roy T. Bennett

I wonder what could happen if self-confessed followers of Jesus surrendered our human powers, and our desires for power, and began to celebrate openly our human weakness in exchange for the experience of Christ as Power within us. What could happen if, for Christ's sake, we openly delighted in our weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties? ~ John David Geib

Life is a gracious sacred-breathe. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't be silent on your talent! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

The journey to the center of your soul doesn't start in your heart. It begins in your brain, and taking it makes you among the bravest of the brave for it's a place only the rare dare venture. ~ Toni Sorenson

Did you have a rough month? I did :( but, you know what? There's no time to dwell on a missed opportunity or worry about what I should've done or said, beating myself up & making myself miserable about my mistakes. That doesn't work. So will take notes from that, put it behind me, move on & finish the year STRONG ~ Pablo

Arrange whatever pieces come your way. ~ Virginia Woolf

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts. ~ Tim O'Reilly

Death does not allow us to postpone all the things we can experience now. ~ Paulo Coelho

Every new day is a divine order. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I want to lay under the blanket of sky and laugh while the stars wink and we write our story. ~ A.D. Posey

VISIBILITY - You've got to find a way to make people know you're there ~ Nikki Giovanni

Any judgment you make on a person is a reflection of you, not them. ~ Avina Celeste

We should find inspiration in the senses that already exist and try to copy them and apply them to us. If we compare our senses to the senses of other animals and species that we don't have, we can get ideas for new abilities that we can adapt to humans by applying cybernetics to the body. ~ Neil Harbisson