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“One of the major challenges facing creative individuals is that of building upon the continuity of human knowledge while achieving novel insights. ... On the one hand, to intensify an inquiry and develop a sense of commitment to a creative life, the learner needs models, teachers, and collaborators. On the other hand, the individual, while building upon the past, needs to transform it, and thus broaden his or her choices.”

“Begin and you're halfway there.”

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Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.”

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Author:Gary Hamel

“Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“It's sort of another innovation, probably a good innovation, of Western culture to separate the ideas between science and philosophy, but it's important to remember they weren't always separate realms of inquiry.”

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Author:Brad Warner

“Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.”

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Author:Virginia Woolf

“Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.”

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Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“Innovation is fostered by information gathered from new connections; from insights gained by journeys into other disciplines or places; from active, collegial networks and fluid, open boundaries. Innovation arises from ongoing circles of exchange, where information is not just accumulated or stored, but created. Knowledge is generated anew from connections that weren't there before.”

Source: Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe

“Inspiration is a guest who does not like to visit lazy people.”

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Author:Andre Tchaikowsky

“The time to go into a new business is when it’s badly run by others.”

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Author:Richard Branson

“Advocates of knowledge management as the next big thing have advanced the proposition that what companies need is more intellectual capital. While that is undeniably true, its only partly true. What those advocates are forgetting is that knowledge is only useful if you do something with it.”

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Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer

“To understand a new idea, break an old habit.”

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Book:The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967

Source: The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967