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.
If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.
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.
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
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.
There are no old roads to new directions.
There’s nothing like setting a goal and accomplishing it. The road to achieve that goal is never straight. It has twists and turns, and at times you feel like you can’t pull it off. When you finally accomplish that goal, you feel a sense of accomplishment and self-worth that really can’t be beat.
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Good questions outrank easy answers.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
We cannot solve a problem by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?
I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
We’re just in experimental phase right now. As long as we’re in that type of phase, it’s a crazy time. You know we’ll get there (profitability) and get there fast. But the ideas that are not out there yet, and the companies that will be behind them, might be the real winners.
Managers say yes to innovation only if doing nothing is a bigger risk.
No worries + no fear + no defeats = no life
An optimist is someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it’s a cha-cha.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Everything looks impossible for the people who never try anything.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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.
Dream big by setting yourself seemingly impossible challenges. You will then have to catch up with them.
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