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“A person might be able to play without being creative, but he sure can't be creative without playing.”

Persons Play Might Able Creativity Creative Innovation Be Creative

Author:Kurt Hanks

“Any money the government spends must be taxed, borrowed or conjured out of thin air by the Federal Reserve, and that will reduce sound private investment. Obama has no real wealth to inject into the economy. He can only move around existing money while inflation robs us of purchasing power. Meanwhile, private investors who might have produced a better engine, battery, computer, cancer treatment or other wealth-creating and life-enhancing innovations hold back for fear that big government will undermine productive efforts.”

“Culturally intelligent innovation begins with changing our impulse from Why can't you see it like I do? to Help me see what I might be missing!”

Helping Might Missing Intelligent Innovation Impulse Help Me

Book:Driven by Difference: How Great Companies Fuel Innovation Through Diversity

Source: Driven by Difference: How Great Companies Fuel Innovation Through Diversity

“We're in a period of uncertainty about [Donald Trump] administration policies and the range of what might happen is particularly higher. I don't think that these R&D and innovation budgets will be substantially reduced.”

Thinking Might Happens Policy Trump Higher Periods Innovation Administration Uncertainty Range Budgets

Author:Bill Gates

“I think there's even a chance that [R&D and innovation budgets] might be increased [during Donald Trump Administration] and we should go and make that case to the executive branch, to the Congress.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic innovation in such things as child development or cutting crime.”

Children Stills Hard Government Might Accepting Cutting Crime Development Benefits Innovation Billions Systematic Hardware Child Development

Author:Geoff Mulgan

“The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and even necessary, that we should go on and on from one technological innovation to the next, which would cause the economy to "grow" and make everything better and better. This of course implied at every point a hatred of the past, of all things inherited and free. All things superceded in our progress of innovations, whatever their value might have been, were discounted as of no value at all.”

“Rapid innovation is the cure for the ills we face, but because innovation is difficult and susceptible to failure, we might need to rethink the way we approach innovation and how we drive it through our companies.”

Way Needs Might Faces Difficult Business Company Approach Innovation Cures Rapids Susceptible

Author:Richard Owen

“The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be.”

Reason Might Change Company Failing Innovation

Author:Gary Hamel

“The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.”

“Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.”

Giving Feels Dream Body Might Purpose Time Asks Creativity Destiny Amount Stress Innovation Agree Add Intention Clarity Guarantees Within You Smallest Relaxation Truest Guarantees That

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Innovation often originates outside existing organizations, in part because successful organizations acquire a commitment to the status quo and a resistance to ideas that might change it”

Ideas Might Successful Commitment Organization Innovation Resistance Acquire Status Quo Successful Organizations

Author:Nathan Rosenberg

“If everybody thinks you're out of your mind, you just might be onto something.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Ideas Might Creativity Innovation

Author:Jack Canfield

“Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse.”

Whole Might Fear Authority Intellectual Innovation Threat Deeper Mediocrity Academic Collapse Evoke Edifice

Author:Arthur Koestler

“Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves.”

World Humans Use Might Able Together Community Innovation Working Together Technological

Author:Jamais Cascio

“A revival almost always begins among the laity. The ecclesiastical leaders seldom welcome reformation. History repeats itself. The present leaders are too comfortably situated as a rule to desire innovation that might require sacrifice on their part. And God's fire only falls on sacrifice. An empty altar receives no fire!”