These are some of our favourite quotes and passages that we’ve collected over the years that we find inspiring or remind us of the types of challenges we need to keep for ourselves to continue to strive for greatness.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination can take you anywhere.
Everyone loves innovation until it affects them.
A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Individuals play the game, but teams beat the odds.
It is not how many ideas you have. It’s how many you make happen.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something. So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
Do not attempt to walk through life without a dream, without a hope, without a goal to achieve success.
No worries + no fear + no defeats = no life
Design thinking can be described as a discipline that uses the designer’s sensibility and methods to match people’s needs with what is technologically feasible and what a viable business strategy can convert into customer value and market opportunity.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
The biggest risk in innovation lies in sticking too closely to your plans.
I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.
Success is measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
The biggest obstacle to learning something is the belief that you already know it.
Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.
In a business world of nonstop change, there’s only one way to win the game: transform it entirely. This requires a revolution in thinking—a steady stream of disruptive strategies and unexpected solutions.
I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I’ve become. If I had, I’d have done it a lot earlier.
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
There is no age attached to a student, that quest is without a number.
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.
Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools.
If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Practice hard. Wellness. Play with Abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Continue to learn. Appreciate your friends. Do what you love. Love as if this is all there is.
Children think not of what is past, nor what is to come, but enjoy the present time, which few of us do.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Pingback: Keep Your Head In The Game | Tim Empringham, MBA