Inspiration And Innovation Quotes

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

To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world. ~ Bill Bowerman

In the 1970s, what I, as a young foreign student studying in the United States, found most dynamic, exciting and impressive about this country is what much of the world continues to value most about the U.S. today: its open intellectual culture, its great universities, its capacity for discovery and innovation. ~ Ahmed Zewail

Your inspiration is better if it comes from many different sources and your sensibilities will transform all those influences and inspiration into your own visual world. It's like reading the book instead of watching the movie. ~ Peter Lindbergh

There are two views of interpreting the Bible in America: that every word is literally the truth without qualification, and then the other view is, it's called plenary inspiration, which holds that all religious truth taught in the Bible is true from God, but each word is not necessarily interpreted literally. ~ Robert H. Schuller

I'm not the kind of girl who spends hours getting ready. I don't blow dry my hair. And I hate make up. I'm not pretty. And I don't want to be. I am passionate and restless and wild. I'm exhausted by prudent ideologies. I'm not inferior because of my lack of convention. I'm as strong as I am broken. I'm tired of having my sexuality mistaken for an invitation. I will sweat and I will run. I will let the rain come down on me. I want to feel life as I am. I don't want to skate through having my immoderation controlled by weak judgements. By fear.

I don't want to be who I'm supposed to be, I want to be who I am. ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

If we don't love ourselves, we would not love others. When someone tell you to love others first, and to love others more than ourselves; it is impossible. If you can't love yourselves, you can't love anybody else. Therefore we must gather up our great power so that we know in what ways we are good, what special abilities we have, what wisdom, what kind of talent we have, and how big our love is. When we can recognize our virtues, we can learn how to love others. ~ Ching Hai

The universe is always sending you inspiration, you just have to listen and allow. ~ Linda Armstrong

I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis: ... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of his species, her species and other species. ~ Juan Enriquez

George Banks and all he stands for will be saved. Maybe not in life, but in imagination. Because that's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again. ~ Walt Disney Company

[Obituary of atheist philosopher Richard Robinson]
An Atheist's Values is one of the best short accounts of liberalism (a term Robinson accepted) and humanism (a term he ignored) produced during the present century, all the more powerful for its lucidity and moderation, its wit and wisdom. It may now seem old-fashioned, but during those confused alarms of struggle and fight between the ignorant armies of left and right, thousands of readers must have taken inspiration from Richard Robinson's rational defence of rationalism.
It is a pity that it is now out of print, when there is still so much nonsense and so little sense in the world. ~ Nicolas Walter

It takes a year to learn how to talk -- and a lifetime to learn what to say. ~ Mandy Arioto

I take thee at thy word:
Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;
Henceforth I never will be Romeo. ~ William Shakespeare

We were taught to be good, and we were taught to be careful. But in this world, sometimes, I do not think we can be the two at once. ~ Marguerite Bennett

Being in a relationship with some people is like pushing a boat through sand. I used to have the time and energy for that kind of nonsense, but not anymore. Relationships should be a wonderful journey of exploration and love; not grinding resistance. ~ Steve Maraboli

The Great Wall of Facebook:

Having just visited the Great Wall of China, I'm thinking about the walls we build on FB. They are real. They keep people in and others out.

Build your wall carefully by answering this question:

What are you building your wall around? ~ Richie Norton

Innovation is a discipline not a lottery ... It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and openmindedness. ~ Georges St-Pierre

Since the last tour I have done a lot of extensive travel to Iraq, Kuwait, Siberia, South Korea and other places and picked up some hopefully interesting stories. We are living in interesting times and as bad as things are, I draw considerable inspiration from some of the things I'm seeing and people I'm meeting. I'm looking forward to getting out on the road and talking about it all. ~ Henry Rollins

There is something deliciously melancholy and haunting about rusting roller coasters, faded fiberglass facades, ferris wheels missing two or three cars, the gradual decay of something meant to be bright and cheerful. -Abandoned Amusement Parks

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. -Edgar Allan Poe

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy. -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

I'll give you another instance: you know how everybody's into weirdness right now?... A lot o' people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch o' unconnected incidents 'n things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice o' coincidence that lays on top o' everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness. -Tracey Walter "Miller", Repo Man

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. -Mickey Rourke "Henry", Barfly

There is nothing about me. I exist only in the surface of what I create. I am slowly losing my mind. I am form over function. I am a hollow space with a shiny exterior - I can only reflect what I'm shown. I am mortified to be human and it upsets me greatly that, one ~ Rust Cohle True Detective

Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us. ~ David Richo

The first step is you have to say that you can. ~ Will Smith

Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus. ~ Frederick Buechner

History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future. ~ Henry Clausen

It's not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out where the strong man stumbled or where the doer of great deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. Whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. Who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again. And who, while daring greatly, spends himself in a worthy cause so that his place may not be among those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt quoted by Edelman ~ Marian Wright Edelman

How could he explain it in a way Leslie would understand, how he yearned to reach out and capture the quivering life about him and how when he tried, it slipped past his fingertips, leaving a dry fossil upon the page? ~ Katherine Paterson

Yes, there can be no innovation, learning, or creativity without failure. But failing is painful. It fuels the "shouldas and couldas," which means judgment and shame are often lying in wait ~ Brene Brown

Raindrops are nothing more than a lullaby for the restless soul. ~ Erin Forbes

I am grateful I got the chance to meet Stevie Wonder! He's like royalty to me and is one of my biggest inspirations. ~ Hunter Hayes

Writers by nature are subversive, observant, and discerning, and their voice contains that. ~ Amy Tan

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge'they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely. ~ Vissarion Belinsky

Your attitude defines your results and dictates your experience. ~ Kyle Barger

Admirations are never paid in any way, try to make yourself of what you admire, and it will pay you with originality. ~ Auliq Ice

Creative leaders inherently know when rules need to be challenged, and they can see when a more flexible approach should be taken. ~ John C. Maxwell

Even if the being is not entirely purified, varieties of inspirations and powers may come down from above but this may lead to serious errors. Inspirations from above mixing with the impurities from below get all muddled up and the sadhak takes this for an absolute command. Many a sadhak has thus fallen into danger. Therefore, one must particularly lay stress on the purification of the being. ~ Sri Aurobindo

Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us. ~ Holly Smale

All kids have tremendous talents - and we squander them pretty ruthlessly. ~ Ken Robinson

Science is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. ~ Albert Einstein

I, of course, owe everything to my mother, because my father died when I was only nine days of age; and the marvelous teachings, the faith, the integrity of my mother have been an inspiration to me. ~ Heber J. Grant

We are justified by faith and saved by grace. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

They go to Paris to learn how to make bombs and they come back having learned only how to write poetry, which they think is more explosive. ~ Rana Dasgupta

It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

Saved or searching, we all need to be reminded of God's interest in us individually and His love for us personally. ~ Erin K. Casey

Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination. ~ Luke Taylor

Those who become incoculated with the virus of race hatred are more unfortunate than the victim of it. Race hatred is the most malignant poison that can afflict the mind. It freezes up the fount of inspiration and chills the higher faculties of the soul. ~ Kelly Miller

Robots are emotionless, so they don't get upset if their buddy is killed, they don't commit crimes of rage and revenge. But ... they see an 80-year-old grandmother in a wheelchair the same way they see a T80 tank; they're both just a series of zeros and ones. ~ P. W. Singer

Let this story be an inspiration when dealing with the weak-minded who share your communal housing blocks and the selfish who use all the soap in your group bathing wells. Know that change is achievable and that happy endings do come, for this story promises to have the happiest ending you will ever hear ~ Adam Johnson

Feelings form part of a world in which time, space and frontiers do not exist. ~ Paulo Coelho