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“In order to become a better innovator, you're going to learn how to write songs.”

Business Creativity Communication Empathy Innovation Songwriting Collaboration Risk Taking Diffusion

Book:The Reason for the Rhymes: Mastering the Seven Essential Skills of Innovation by Learning to Write Songs

Source: The Reason for the Rhymes: Mastering the Seven Essential Skills of Innovation by Learning to Write Songs

“Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are no longer alone, they have an investment in critical praise, and they think they must protect it. This leads to a diffusion of effort. The writer watches himself as he works. He grows more subtle and he pays for it by loss of organic dash.”

Source: Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler

“To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data. An indispensable preliminary, then, in every investigation, is to get at facts. Until these are arrived at, every opinion, theory, or system, however ingeniously framed, must necessarily rest upon an uncertain basis.”

World Facts Opinion Theory Habit Circumstances Bases Errors Wide Conclusion Data Investigation Uncertain Indispensable Framed Owing Adopting Diffusion

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“I delight in the diffusion of learning; yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place; just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.”

Half Learning Findings Tables Delight Breakfast Quantity Grease Diffusion

Book:Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

Source: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

“Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity .”

Political Life Is Social Political Life Diffusion Mendacity

Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard

“The necessary precondition for the birth of science as we know it is, it would seem, the diffusion through society of the belief that the universe is both rational and contingent. Such a belief is the presupposition of modern science and cannot by any conceivable argument be a product of science. One has to ask: Upon what is this belief founded?”

Knows Seems Universe Asks Belief Modern Products Birth Argument Rational Modern Science Diffusion

Book:Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture

Source: Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture

“We consider ourselves to be free because no one in our society is allowed unlimited powerno leader, faction, party or 'class', no majority, no government, church, corporation, trade, or professional association or trade union. The secret of its freedom is that it is composed of a multitude of organisations in the constitution of the best of which is reproduced that diffusion of power which is characteristic of the whole.”

“The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It makes free men. We want a nation of proprietors, not a state of collectivists. That is attained by creating a national wealth and income, not by destroying it. The income and estate taxes create an orderly movement to diffuse swollen fortunes more effectively than all the quacks.”

Source: Addresses Upon the American Road

“The political objective of universal capitalism is maximum individual autonomy, the separation of political power wielded by the holders of public office from economic power held by citizens, and the broad diffusion of privately owned economic power.”

Source: Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals

“The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the world is the country or the sky. It is the concentration of some of its greatest powers, but it is not the greatest diffusion of its might. It is not the habit of its success, the stability of its sereneness.”

World Country Might Cities Sky Genius Habit Concentration Stability Cities In The World Diffusion

Book:Leigh Hunt's Works

Source: Leigh Hunt's Works

“The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion has protected us as man had never been protected before from having to take seriously the civilizations of other peoples; it has given to our culture a massive universality that we have long ceased to account for historically, and which we read off rather as necessary and inevitable.”

“The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It makes men free.”

Men Should Wisdom Social Party Economic Security Property Free Man Quacks Diffusion Economic Security

Author:Jeffrey H Reiman

“Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Let these be your motives to action through life, the relief of the distressed, the detection of frauds, the defeat of oppression, and diffusion of happiness.”

Mean Action Virtue Dangerous Integrity Weak Defeat Oppression Useless Motive Relief Fraud Acquaintance Detection Diffusion

Book:The papers of General Nathanael Greene

Source: The papers of General Nathanael Greene

“In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!”

Littles Long Running Nations Progress Dangerous Historical Invention These Days Long Runs Printing Calumny Diffusion

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I’m not doing anything wrong, I’m not obstructing anyone’s access. When I have a crowd I make sure that the crowd makes room for people. I’m an artist who cares about the cultural fabric of New York City. I care about New York as a harbor for street culture - and I care about street culture as a base-level populist diffusion of ideas. And I believe in making those ideas accessible to everyone.”

People Believe Ideas Care Artist Culture I Believe Levels Rooms Cities Streets New York Crowds I Believe In Access New York City Fabric I Care Who Cares Harbors Populist Diffusion

Author:Kalan Sherrard

“The diffusion of information and the arraignment of all abuses at the bar of public reason, I deem [one of] the essential principles of our government, and consequently [one of] those which ought to shape its administration.”

Reason Government Principles Information Ought Shapes Essentials Abuse Bars Administration Diffusion

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.”

World Humans Decision Decision Making Centre Civilisation Hub Diffusion

Author:William Hague

“With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art.”

Way Art Light Eye Today Film Scene Abuse Contrast Exposure Subtlety Filters Diffusion

Author:Conrad Hall

“The principal mechanism for convergence at the international as well as the domestic level is the diffusion of knowledge.”

Wells Levels International Mechanism Principal Convergence Diffusion

Book:Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Source: Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“The American people owe it to themselves, and to the cause of free Government, to prove by their establishments for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge, that their political Institutionsare as favorable to the intellectual and moral improvement of Man as they are conformable to his individual and social rights.”

People Men Government Political Individual Social Causes Education Moral Rights Prove Intellectual Improvement Establishment Advancement Free Government Diffusion

Book:Selected Writings of James Madison

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization or social theory that is not dangerous, but that they should remain entirely ignorant of any civilization or social theory that might be dangerous on the ground that what you don't know can't hurt you ... a complete denial of the democratic principle that the general diffusion of knowledge and learning through the community is essential to the preservation of free government.”

Source: Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life

“The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it.”

Mind Humans Joy Next Grace Objects Divine Exercise Blessing Misery Human Mind Sovereign Consolation Divine Grace Diffusion

Book:Works of the Right Reverend Beilby Porteus, late Bishop of London: with his life

Source: Works of the Right Reverend Beilby Porteus, late Bishop of London: with his life

“The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.”

Thinking Way Persons States Age Reading Half Conditions Ignorance Willing Birth Enlightenment Increase Extraordinary Former Facility Resignation Diffusion

Book:The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German

Source: The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German

“Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment with particularity and literary vagueness... It may well be that the slovenly and literary borderland between economics and sociology will be the most fruitful building ground during the years to come and that mathematical economics will remain too flawless in its perfection to be very fruitful.”

Years Wells May Building Economics Perfection Mathematical Contentment Barriers Conventions Sociology Elegance Attainment Flawless Generalities Vagueness Diffusion

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“So far as laws and institutions avail, men should have equality of opportunity for happiness; that is, of education, wealth, power. These make happiness secure. An equal diffusion of happiness so far as laws and institutions avail.”

Men Should Happiness Law Opportunity Wealth Education Equal Should Have Institutions Secure Diffusion Equality Of Opportunity

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.”

Political Liberty Diffusion

Author:Lord Hailsham

“If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.”

Ifs Political Concentration Dictatorship Diffusion

Author:Lord Hailsham

“Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the diffusion of knowledge, so astonishing in the last half-century, has rendered innumerable minds, variously gifted by nature, competent to be competitors or fellow-workers on the theatre of intellectual operation.”

Source: The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster

“The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.”

Men Greater Effects Stupid Fields Elements Intelligent Surprise Stupidity Intelligent Man Diffusion Stupid Men Element Of Surprise

Author:Peter Ustinov

“But if the cow is purple, you'd notice it, OK? The thing that's going to decide what gets talked about, what gets done, what gets changed, what gets purchased, what gets built is, is it remarkable? And remarkable's a really cool word 'cause we think it just means neat, but it also means worth making a remark about, and that is the essence of where idea diffusion is going.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Ideas Done Causes Changed Built Essence Remarkable Cows Purple Remarks Really Cool Neat Diffusion

Author:Seth Godin

“In the late 60s, 70s and possibly early 80s, social scientists were interested in researching the diffusion of innovation and studying the link between applied research and policy and program development. Recently there has been less interest in these issues and we feel that this interest must be rekindled.”

Feels Has Beens Social Interest Study Issues Policy Development Late Research Program Scientist Innovation Links 80s Diffusion

Author:Ruth Simmons

“What I'm doing is obeying the law of diffusion of innovations.”

Law Innovation Obeying Diffusion Obeying The Law

Author:Simon Sinek

“I'm building on purpose. I'm building that tipping point. I'm building that law of diffusion of innovation.”

Law Purpose Building Innovation Tipping Tipping Point Diffusion

Author:Simon Sinek

“Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.”

May Liberty Power Abuse Presidential Patriotic Freedom And Liberty Freedom Liberty Abuse Of Power American Liberty Diffusion

Author:James Madison

“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”

Freedom Education Liberty Knowledge Democracy Inspirational Life Patriotic Guardian Advancement Freedom And Liberty Freedom Liberty Our Founding Fathers Democracies Have Forefathers Us President Knowledge Education Diffusion

Book:James Madison's

Source: James Madison's

“On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.”

People Education Institutions Preservation Diffusion

Book:Biographical memoir of the public life of Daniel Webster

Source: Biographical memoir of the public life of Daniel Webster

“Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.”

Used Grows Knowledge Increase Contrary Commodity Diffusion Dispersion

Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“The struggle to emerge out of the past, clean of memories; the inadequacy of our hearts to cut life into separate and final portions; the pain of this constant ambivalence and interrelation of emotions; the hunger for frontiers against which we might learn as upon closed doors before we proceed forward; the struggle against diffusion, new beginnings, against finality in acts without finality or end, in our cursedly repercussive being.”

Heart Ends Might Pain Past Memories Emotion Struggle Cutting Doors Constant Clean Finals Hunger Portions New Beginnings Frontiers Inadequacy Closed Doors Finality Ambivalence Diffusion

Author:Anais Nin

“The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.”

Freedom Progress Depends Office Spread Labour Commerce Cabinets Maintenance Diffusion

Book:Speeches on Questions of Public Policy

Source: Speeches on Questions of Public Policy

“I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness.”

People Thinking Important Whole Knowledge Foundation Bills Educational Code Preservation Diffusion Freedom And Happiness

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.”

Men Looks Light Virtue Conditions Resources Educational Promoting Advancing Diffusion

Book:Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretarry of state

Source: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretarry of state

“Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.”

Giving Should Government Force Education Opinion Objects Essentials Importance Institutions Structure Primaries Proportion Enlightened Public Opinion Farewell Address Diffusion

Book:The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States

Source: The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States

“A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge.”

Self Religious Liberty Limits Conscious Endeavor Providing Secular Self Conscious Sects Diffusion

Book:The Principles of Sociology

Source: The Principles of Sociology

“Without an acquaintance with chemistry, the statesman must remain a stranger to the true vital interests of the state, to the means of its organic development and improvement; ... The highest economic or material interests of a country, the increased and more profitable production of food for man and animals, ... are most closely linked with the advancement and diffusion of the natural sciences, especially of chemistry.”

Source: Familiar Letters on Chemistry, in its relation to Physiology, Dietetics, Agriculture, Commerce and Political Economy: Edited by John Blyth

“One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its essential point to other minds. Words may have to be strained into a new sense, and scientific controversies constantly resolve themselves into differences about the meaning of words. On the other hand, a happy nomenclature has sometimes been more powerful than rigorous logic in allowing a new train of thought to be quickly and generally accepted.”

“The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.”

Earth Culture Nations Path Salvation Pedagogy Diffusion

Author:Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

“Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance.”

Government Importance Improvement Presidential Internals Federal Government Diffusion

Book:Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States

Source: Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States

“Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets.”

Secret Sheer Curtains Disappointing Colorful Unspeakable Bouquets Diffusion

Author:Chris Ware

“Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination, fracturing, diffusion, reproducing, as much as producing, creating, forcing, guiding, are necessary aspects of elaboration.”

Values Strong Creating Aspect Historical Insight Complexity Density Subordination Diffusion Reproducing

Author:Edward Said

“In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.”

Should Government Individual Community Benefits Advantage Burden Characteristics Expenses Diffusion

Book:Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress

Source: Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress