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• If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Doe, Needs, Approval

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• Developed countries will always welcome the Einsteins of this world - those individuals whose talents are already recognized and deemed to have value. This welcome doesn't usually extend to the poor and uneducated people seeking to enter the country. But the truth, supported by the facts of history and the richness of immigrant contribution to America's distinction in the world, is that the most entrepreneurial, innovative, motivated citizen is the one who has been given an opportunity and wants to repay the debt.

  Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

  Country, Opportunity, America

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• I think people just see cinematography as being about photography and innovative shots and beautiful lighting. We all want our movies to look great visually, to be beguiling and enticing, but I think that what really defines a great cinematographer is one who loves story.

  Seamus McGarvey

  Beautiful, Photography, Thinking

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• It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.

  Alan Greenspan

  Business, Past, Derivatives

  "Taking Hard New Look at a Greenspan Legacy" by Peter S. Goodman, www.nytimes.com. October 8, 2008.

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• Ideas are somewhat like babies - they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative company executives do not say, "This is a damn-fool idea." Instead they ask, "What would be needed to make this embryonic, half-baked, foolish idea into something that makes sense, that is an opportunity for us?"

  Peter Drucker

  Baby, Opportunity, Ideas

  "The Frontiers of Management". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1986.

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• There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .

  Peter Drucker

  Technology, Economy, Institutions

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.163, Routledge

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• You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.

  Dan Deacon

  Stupid, Rap, People

  Interview with Chris Martins, music.avclub.com. April 15, 2009.

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• BUILD UP YOUR CIRCLE.... A mind that perceives What can rationally be. A spirit that sees Innovative possibility. A heart that is open to Both beginnings and ends. A firm hand that fits readily To the reach of a friend.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Heart, Hands, Circles

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• Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Space, Intellectual, Way

  "Code + Law: An Interview with Lawrence Lessig". Interview with Tim O'Reilly and Richard Koman, www.openp2p.com. January 29, 2001.

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• Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life.

  Rick Larsen

  Responsibility, America, Community

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• In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.

  Sean Parker

  Media, Campaigns, Elements

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• The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind.

  Steve Jobs

  Ideas, Firsts, Come Up

  "Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography". Book by Walter Isaacson, 2011.

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• There is no progress without risk, and in an environment where change is accelerating, risks are multiplying and businesses are increasingly complex, companies need strong, innovative partners to help manage their risk. Our brand clearly sets XL apart as the strong, innovative partner needed in today's market.

  Mike McGavick

  Strong, Risk, Progress

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• Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

  Peter M. Brant

  Art, Errors, Succeed

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• I believe babies are born as innovative personalities... But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning.

  Jay Wright Forrester

  Baby, Teaching, Believe

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• Continual improvement involves an appreciation that there is always a better way to do things irrespective of how much you have achieved or how comfortable you might be with where you currently are in life. As a young international rugby player I learnt a valuable lesson about sacrifice. The bottom line was the phrase 'long after the price is forgotten the quality remains'. Undertaking JOLT Challenge involves sacrifice but it is well worth it as you explore creative and innovative ways of challenging yourself for constant improvement in many areas of life.

  Nick Farr-Jones

  Appreciation, Sacrifice, Player

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• Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.

  Moshe Safdie

  Cities, Discipline, Design

  "Toronto should be more like Singapore, Moshe Safdie says". Interview with Lisa Rochon, www.theglobeandmail.com. April 08, 2011.

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• If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.

  Steven Johnson

  Ideas, Innovation, Looks

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• The social and economic impact of innovative American researchers, companies, and workers over the course of U.S. history have been enormous.

  Robert Hormats

  Impact, Economic, Social

  "The Road to an Effective Innovation Diplomacy" by Robert Hormats, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2013.

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• As the world's "most dynamic" cities seek to manage their own urban growth, American state and local officials have much to offer. Our mayors can share their experiences in urban design, clean energy projects, Smart Grids, codes for energy efficient buildings, transportation safety, and innovative environmental solutions.

  Robert Hormats

  Smart, Cities, Safety

  "Seizing the Opportunities of Global Urbanization: The New Frontier in America’s International Economic Policy" by Robert Hormats, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2013.

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• Economic growth and environmental preservation are two sides of the same coin. There's no better illustration of that point than the California Clean Tech Open, which challenges California entrepreneurs to bring new, clean technologies to market. I encourage business leaders, policy makers, and environmental advocates to support this innovative, exciting competition.

  Terry Tamminen

  Technology, Two Sides, California

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• I welcome viagogo's fresh approach to the entertainment industry and I look forward to helping them build more innovative partnerships in the future.

  Guy Oseary

  Entertainment, Looks, Helping

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• The Regime has become so smug it can't tell the difference among the revolutionary, the innovative, or the merely various. The high command knows so little about the outside that if I came back with a fully equipped chemical laboratory and told them I'd found it in a cave, they'd probably believe that, so long as I brought it back piecemeal in my saddle bags, thus proving I hadn't known it was there beforehand.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Believe, Differences, Long

  "The Visitor". Book by Sheri S. Tepper, 2002.

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• My mother's influence to take on new challenges and do what I though was right even though sometimes the consequences politically speaking were not good. My mother was vivacious, she was full of life, she got up every morning looking forward to the day, trying to figure out what she could do that was innovative and unprecedented and maybe controversial.

  Jimmy Carter

  Mother, Morning, Challenges

  Interview with Toby Harnden, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 29, 2008.

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• So far as one can generalize, the most graciouis, cultivated, and innovative people in this country are French Canadians. Certainly they have given us the most exciting politicians of our time: Trudeau, Lévesque. Without them, Canada would be an exceedingly boring and greatly diminished place.

  Mordecai Richler

  Country, People, Would Be

  Mordecai Richler (1992). “Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!: requiem for a divided country”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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