A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock pile when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.
A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock pile when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

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- Innovation is the effective application of processes and products new to the organization and designed to benefit it and its stakeholders.
- The future is a direction, not a destination.
- Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.
- They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
- Be bold in pursuing what others believe is unrealistic because this will achieve more than being bland and unimaginative.
- You can’t solve a problem on the same level that it was created. You have to rise above it to the next level.
- Innovation is the result of a process that brings radical ideas to create positive change
- The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.
- If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this is the end of innovation.
- We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn’t about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best.
- You can’t allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There’s a need to respect the past, but it’s a mistake to revere your past.
- Value innovation is not the same as technology innovation.
- If you must walk in someone’s shadow make sure it’s your own
- Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
- Innovate or die, and there’s no innovation if you operate out of fear of the new or untested.
- A ship is safe in harbor but the is not what ships are for
- Being creative is a casual thing, being artist is a professional thing.
- Learning to fail is a virtue. Failing to learn is a sin.
- No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.
- If you are not innovating, you are deteriorating.