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• I would never be innovative enough to "blaze my own trail," I'm just trying to be interesting. So I don't look to anyone else as far as inspiration.

  Henry Rollins

  Inspiration, Interesting, Trying

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Writers tend to hate recurring characters; there's this writer snob thing about it. But I don't have that. I feel like the challenge is always to find a cool and innovative way to do it and, obviously, to not repeat your jokes.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Hate, Character, Challenges

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Barack Obama's said some very nice things and he says them well. But if you ask me, the reason that we're looking at somebody who is such an inexperienced senator, who has said some very pleasant but not especially sterling or innovative things, the reason that he's considered such a big deal is simply because he's black.

  John H. McWhorter

  Nice, Black, Reason

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Smaller companies are often more homogenous. Don't simply increase your diversity because of the social pressure to do so. Instead, realize that hiring a more diverse team will give you a whole new repertoires of innovative ideas. And then develop a strategy for effectively using the diversity of your team.

  David Livermore

  Team, Ideas, Giving

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Campaign analysts say that Dean has produced the most innovative web site in this year's presidential race. I particularly like today's blog, which consisted of the sentence 'I hate myself,' typed four billion times. In Dean's case, this may be the first instance where the actually entity represented by the web site has crashed more often than the site did.

  Dennis Miller

  Hate, Race, Years

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• Every actor wants to find a piece of work that's innovative and powerful and moving.

  Sean Bean

  Powerful, Moving, Actors

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Challenge is the opportunity for greatness. People do their best when there is an opportunity to change how things currently stand. Maintaining the status quo facilitates mediocrity. Those who embrace this practice do not wish to rest on their laurels. They motivate others to exceed their limits and look for innovative ways to improve the organization.

  James M. Kouzes

  Leadership, Opportunity, Greatness

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• Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences

  Albert Bandura

  Past, Ideas, People

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• 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.

  Gary Hamel

  Perspective, Innovation, Different

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• Different times call for different attitudes. But I love your generation because you are so creative and innovative in how you wear things, how you think, how you approach everything.

  Renzo Rosso

  Attitude, Love You, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think a lot of music that's really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a sexual image. And people assume that it's a commodified thing, so it can't be "indie."

  Grimes

  Thinking, People, Assuming

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. February 16, 2012.

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• BRICS should be driven by 'People to People' contact. It should explore developing innovative mechanisms of Youth engagement.

  Narendra Modi

  People, Engagement, India

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• In the managerial organization, the top people sit in judgment; in the innovative organization it is their job to encourage ideas, no matter how unripe or crude.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Organization, Ideas

  Peter F. Drucker (2013). “The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society”, p.52, Elsevier

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• The only people who get paid what they're worth are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are innovative, who work without a map.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Book, People

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• I feel like if I'm not going to change the game or do something innovative, then I'm not motivated.

  DJ Quik

  Games, Motivated, Feels

  Interview with David Drake, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2014.

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• Innovation is not a big breakthrough invention every time. Innovation is a constant thing. But if you don't have an innovative company [team], coming to work everyday to find a better way, you don't have a company[team]. You're getting ready to die on the vine. You're always looking for the next innovation, the next niche, the next product improvement, the next service improvement. But always trying to get better.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Always Trying, Innovation

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• Risk taking and the drive to pursue innovative ideas are the fuel that stokes the entrepreneurial spirit.

  Daniel Goleman

  Ideas, Risk, Fuel

  Daniel Goleman (2011). “Working With Emotional Intelligence”, p.100, Bantam

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• You need propellants to accelerate toward Mars, then to decelerate at Mars, again to re-accelerate from Mars to Earth, and finally to decelerate back at Earth. Accordingly, the mass of these required propellants, in short, drives our need for innovative launch vehicles.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Needs, Mars, Earth

  "American Space Exploration Leadership — Why and How" by Buzz Aldrin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Do what you do because Jesus is watching, not so you'll end up on some top 100 church list or be the envy of the next pastors gathering. That stuff doesn't matter. Be innovative because you believe people matter and you want to please Jesus.

  Tim Stevens

  Jesus, Believe, People

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• The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done.

  Bill Gates

  Opportunity, Thinking, Ideas

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• My definition of innovative is providing value to the customer.

  Mary T. Barra

  Definitions, Customers, Providing

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• We have already begun taking concrete steps to change the structure of our economy and, as we have discussed a great deal, to give it a more innovative quality.

  Vladimir Putin

  Giving, Quality, Steps

  Annual Address to the Federal Assembly, en.kremlin.ru. May 10, 2006.

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• I want the definition of startup back. To be used by anybody who is willing to take the risk to quit their corporate job and go out and try and build an innovative, disruptive, tech-enabled business that tries to change the way things work in the world.

  Mark Suster

  Jobs, Risk, Trying

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• Voluntary actions by corporations should not go beyond innovative win - win 'no regrets' initiatives. Greenhouse gas control practices that are uneconomic penalize either consumers or stockholders while politicizing the issue of corporate responsibility. Few will be satisfied, and the ineffectual measures will eventually have to be abandoned.

  Robert L. Bradley, Jr.

  Regret, Responsibility, Winning

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• I thought, "why don't we be innovative and create something nobody had ever done before?" It was a huge hit and we immediately did a sequel with Chris Rock, Morgan Freeman, Tina Turner and Maya Angelou.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Rocks, Done, Turner

  "Black Ancestry Matters on 'Finding Your Roots'". Interview with Alexandra Phanor-Faury, www.ebony.com. January 26, 2016.

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