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“The bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense has no following and is tartly reminded that 'it isn't in the dictionary' - although down to the time of the first lexicographer no author ever had used a word that was in the dictionary.”

Ifs Firsts Use Used Language Grows Innovation Following Recognizing Dictionary Unfamiliar Discerning New Words Lexicographer

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.”

Language Innovation

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it.”

Order Language Brain Evolution Innovation Handle

Author:Leonard Shlain

“There are two sure ways to fail: never get started and quit before you succeed. Many companies promote the language of risk-taking and innovation but are so concerned with short term profit goals that their culture discourages innovation (trying new things) and abandons promising projects too soon. It shouldn't require exceptional moral courage to try new things and stick with them.”

“We have found that companies need to speak a common language, because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are seemingly counter-intuitive. If companies don't have that common language, it is hard for them to come to consensus on a counter-intuitive course of action.”

Action Speak Language Common Innovation Consensus

Author:Clayton Christensen

“What enriches language is its being handled and exploited by beautiful minds-not so much by making innovations as by expanding it through more vigorous and varied applications, by extending it and deploying it. It is not words that they contribute: what they do is enrich their words, deepen their meanings and tie down their usage; they teach it unaccustomed rhythms, prudently though and with ingenuity.”

Mind Book Beautiful Language Teach Innovation Rhythm Ties Application Expanding Vigorous Ingenuity Extending Usage Beautiful Mind Deploying

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.”

Language Innovation Customs Multitudes Adopted

Book:The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha

Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha

“Play with your physical workplace in a way that sends positive "body language" to employees and visitors.”

Way Play Body Culture Language Innovation Employee Workplace Visitors Body Language

Book:The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm

Source: The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm

“To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions”

Language Millions Fire Type Innovation Invention Wheels

Author:Dean Kamen

“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.”

Ifs America Beautiful Form Language Strong Innovation Bars Poetry Is Beaten

Author:Jim Jarmusch