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Innovation Quotes of the Day – May 5, 2012

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“Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.”

– W. Edwards Deming

“Defining innovation as an organization is important because it helps you determine what kinds of innovation you are focusing on as an organization, and what kinds of innovation you ARE NOT focusing on.”

– Braden Kelley

“Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview – nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.”

– Stephen Jay Gould

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Innovation Quotes of the Day – May 4, 2012

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“The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.”

– Helen Keller

“The question is not whether someone is innovative or not, but what innovation roles does each person tend towards. Are all Nine Innovation Roles represented on your teams? Innovation is a team sport, and all nine roles are required for innovation success.”

– Braden Kelley

“In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.”

– Tim Bishop

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Innovation Quotes of the Day – May 3, 2012

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“In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we’re so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.”

– Dean Kamen

“I’m of the opinion that all people are creative, in their own way… I believe that all people excel at one of Nine Innovation Roles, and that when organizations put the right people in the right innovation roles, that your innovation speed and capacity will increase.”

– Braden Kelley

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

– Albert Einstein

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Innovation Quotes of the Day – May 2, 2012

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“One who fears limits his activities. Failure is the only opportunity to more intelligently begin again.”

– Henry Ford

“Too often we form innovation teams based on who is available instead of focusing on who will make the innovation team successful.”

– Braden Kelley

“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”

– John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 30, 2012

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“Albert Einstein wrote, ‘Everybody is a genius! But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid!’
We are all capable of doing one thing better than any other person alive at this time in history!”

– Matthew Kelly

“In order for innovation to reliably happen at every level of the organization, it will be extremely useful for all members to have access to the voice of the customer.”

– Braden Kelley

“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”

– J.K. Rowling

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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 29, 2012

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“If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you’ll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.”

– Jim Jarmusch

“One of the ways that you can attract people to your innovation efforts is to leverage the power of passion. Seek to identify what people are passionate about when it comes to your company or your products. Passion can be extremely contagious.”

– Braden Kelley

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

– Albert Einstein

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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 28, 2012

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“Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.”

– Barack Obama

“Being successful in the innovation aspects of social business requires an organization to establish a place and a reason for mutually beneficial dialogue to occur.”

– Braden Kelley

“I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.”

– Alexis de Tocqueville

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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 27, 2012

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“If you put fences around people, you get sheep.”

– William McKnight (former CEO of 3M)

“For people without passion and talent, information has no value.”

– Jef Staes

“We must find a way to strike a balance between what employees need to do for the organization and what they want to do for the organization. Otherwise, human capital is being wasted, flushed down the drain.”

– Braden Kelley

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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 26, 2012

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“The thing you push against is the thing that lifts you up.”

– From a Delta Airlines advertisement

“Mommy, how come Daddy is not out in the garage inventing things if he is in innovation”

– My 7 year old daughter

“Pathmaker, there is no path. The path is made by walking. By walking you make the path.”

– Antonio Machado

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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 25, 2012

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“Figure out how to take risks that keep you in the game even if you fail.”

– Seth Godin

“Over the last couple of decades, companies have increasingly found that employees who pursue what they do with passion will outperform an employee with a gun to their head every time.”

– Braden Kelley

“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”

– Albert Einstein

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