“But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance or of certainty. It is a new view of man's role in the universe; he creates order by taking risks. And this means that innovation, rather than being an assertion of human power, is an acceptance of human responsibility.” MenHumansMeanOrderUniverseChangeChanceViewsResponsibilityRolesRiskAcceptanceInnovationMethodCertaintyAssertionTaking RisksHuman Power Author:Peter Drucker
“Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of the adaptation of living beings to their environment, i.e., of beings that are born plastic, is passed on from generation to generation through imitation. Were this not so, much if not all of the road traversed by one generation would have to be travelled by the next generation from the very beginning and without short-cuts. Consequently there would be little chance for the novel adaptation, the propitious individual variation, that constitutes progress.” IfsLittlesWould BeNextIndividualBornChanceNovelEnvironmentCuttingProgressGenerationsConsciousMethodExcellenceEducationalUnconsciousPlasticImitationAdaptationNext GenerationVariationShort Cuts Author:Elsie Clews Parsons
“Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are merely systems for the nice ordering and setting forth of things already invented; not methods of invention or directions for new works.” ScienceChanceKnownKnowledgeNiceAccountsMethodDuesExperimentsInventionSettingSettingsNew Work Book:The works Source: The works
“A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United States be abandoned and that the method used in choosing juries be substituted. That is to say, I propose that the men who make our laws be chosen by chance and against will of all the rest of us, as now.” MenStatesLawUsedChanceUnitedUnited StatesHe ManCriticismMethodMoodChosenAbandonedConstructiveProposeJuryLegislatorsPrevailingConstructive Criticism Author:H. L. Mencken
“Our individualism is rooted in our very nature. It is based on conviction born of experience. Equal opportunity, the demand for a fair chance, became the formula of American Individualism because it is the method of American achievement.” OpportunityBornChanceDemandEqualAchievementFairsMethodConvictionFormulasIndividualismRootedEqual Opportunity Book:American Individualism Source: American Individualism