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• People tend to think of breakthroughs in medicine as a new drug, a laser, or a high-tech surgical procedure. They often have a hard time believing that the simple choices that we make in our lifestyle. What we eat, how we respond to stress, whether or not we smoke cigarettes, how much exercise we get, and the quality of our relationships and support can be as powerful as drugs and surgery. And they often are.

  Dean Ornish

  Powerful, Stress, Believe

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• The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king, or exploiting the subtle superiority of one piece over another.

  Pal Benko

  Kings, Squares, Pieces

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• All great inventions emerge from a long sequence of small sparks; the first idea often isn’t all that good, but thanks to collaboration it later sparks another idea, or it’s reinterpreted in an unexpected way. Collaboration brings small sparks together to generate breakthrough innovation.

  Scott Belsky

  Ideas, Long, Innovation

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• Ruby on Rails is a breakthrough in lowering the barriers of entry to programming.
  Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken weeks or months
  to develop can be produced in a matter of days.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Powerful, Taken, Might

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• The more you hardwire a company on total quality management, the more it is going to hurt breakthrough innovation.

  Vijay Govindarajan

  Hurt, Innovation, Quality

  Business Week, 2007.

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• The transfer is guaranteed to be safe and secure, everyone knows that the transfer has taken place, and nobody can challenge the legitimacy of the transfer. The consequences of this breakthrough are hard to overstate.

  Marc Andreessen

  Taken, Challenges, Safe

  "Why Bitcoin Matters". dealbook.nytimes.com. January 21, 2014.

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• This amazing breakthrough full-length revolutionary audio uses a powerful new combination of a subliminal hypnotic induction AND beautiful original music (created with a really cool ancient musical instrument) AND brand-new subliminal clearing commands ALL designed to begin to clear your unconscious blocks of anything and everything in the way of your attracting what you really want – and this incredible one-hour audio does it without any effort at all on your part!

  Joe Vitale

  Beautiful, Powerful, Block

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• Don't they know science doesn't work like that? You can't just order scientific breakthroughs. They happen when you are looking at something you've been working on for years and suddenly see a connection you never noticed before, or when you're looking for something else altogether. Sometimes they even happen by accident. Don't they know you can't get a scientific breakthrough just because you want one?

  Connie Willis

  Order, Years, Connections

  Connie Willis (2010). “Bellwether”, p.80, Spectra

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• Not even God can make something fair out of what is intrinsically unfair. Only one thing can be done. Something must break through the crust of unfairness and create a chance for a new fairness. Only forgiveness can make the breakthrough.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Break Through, Done

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• Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People's needs change, so you must aim well ahead of the target to hit it.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Creativity, Ideas, People

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• I am a competitive person with myself. I always find new goals to achieve, new challenges to breakthrough, and I try and do something new every day. And I'm highly competitive with myself.

  Hilary Swank

  Goal, Challenges, Trying

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Everything has to be understood in opposition to something else. For some dang reason, the ego prefers to make one side better than the other, so we choose. And we decide males are better than females, America is better than Canada, Democrats are better than Republicans. And for most people, once this decision is made, it is amazing the amount of blindness they become capable of. They really don't see what's right in front of them. Once you see this, it's an amazing breakthrough, and that is the starting place for moving away from dualistic thinking.

  Richard Rohr

  Moving, Thinking, America

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• Our media, which is like a planetary nervous system, are far more sensitive to breakdowns than to breakthroughs. They filter out our creativity and successes, considering them less newsworthy than violence, war, and dissent. When we read newspapers and watch television news, we feel closer to a death in the social body than to an awakening.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  War, Creativity, Media

  Barbara Marx Hubbard (2015). “Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential”, p.18, New World Library

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• When I experience something or feel something, that's kind of transferred to the audience. There's a lot of great breakthrough moments that come out of that.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Kind, Moments, Feels

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.

  R. D. Laing

  Enlightenment, Psychological, Breakdown

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• A muse comes down from Mount Olympus and changes my attitude, cheering me up - it's an inner intuition, suddenly giving a breakthrough to be able to move ahead.

  Robert Bateman

  Cheer, Attitude, Moving

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• If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America's system of higher education must remain the world's leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.

  Alan Greenspan

  Teaching, Economic Value, America

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• New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works...images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting. That is why the discipline of managing mental models - surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works - promises to be a major breakthrough for learning organizations.

  Peter Senge

  Thinking, Practice, Organization

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• I took a long view in order to not destroy the core Galvin-defined principles imbued in Motorola, such as constant respect for people, its instincts for breakthrough innovation, and continuous renewal in thinking and process rigor.

  Christopher Galvin

  Thinking, Views, Order

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• I am impressed with the innovation in the wireless marketplace. The Blackberry, the iPhone, the Pre, and other smart devices are breakthrough technologies that have helped revolutionize the wireless space.

  Julius Genachowski

  Smart, Technology, Iphone

  "Conversation: Julius Genachowski on Net Neutrality". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2009.

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• There are just moments when all the stars are aligned for breakthrough products.

  John Sculley

  Stars, Moments, Products

  "Ex-CEO John Sculley On Apple’s Innovation ‘Lull’". Interview with Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 17, 2013.

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• I've got a mission to help people improve and massively change their lives and create breakthroughs, so I'm always looking for them and I'm the first guinea pig.

  Tony Robbins

  Pigs, People, Firsts

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• This is what happens with a breakthrough.  The first ones through the door often get bruised if not broken.  Eventually, with a little political acumen and racial sensitivity and a lot of hard work, a smooth new place can emerge.

  Gwen Ifill

  Hard Work, Doors, Broken

  Gwen Ifill (2009). “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama”, p.17, Anchor

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• We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments. When you're headed for a breakthrough moment, it's kind of scary because you say, 'If I break through then I have to make great change in my life.'

  Dane Cook

  Break Through, Scary, Kind

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• The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.

  Peter Singer

  World, Internet, Steam Engines

  "The unknown promise of internet freedom". www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2010.

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