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.
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
Less isn’t more; just enough is more.
If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
Mastery is a pursuit, not a destination, and, throughout its unfolding, is a reoccurring cycle of losing who we think we are in order to make room for who we are becoming.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
Individuals play the game, but teams beat the odds.
I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
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.
Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction.
Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.
Progress always involves risk. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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.
If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing, success will be yours.
A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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.
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
To clarify, add detail. Imagine that, to clarify, add detail. Clutter and overload are not attributes of information, they are failures of design. If the information is in chaos, don’t start throwing out information, instead fix the design.
Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Pain is temporary. Glory is forever.
In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.
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