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.
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.
Someday isn’t a real day like Monday or Tuesday, it’s just another word for ‘never’.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
If you can clearly articulate the dream or the goal, start.
Change is inevitable; growth is optional!
I never lose. I either win or learn.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination can take you anywhere.
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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.
Everyone loves innovation until it affects them.
Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
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.
She drank from a bottle called DRINK ME and up she grew so tall. She ate from a plate called TASTE ME and down she shrank so small. And so she changed, while other folks Never tried nothin’ at all.
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.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Success comes in cans, not can’t’s.
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing, success will be yours.
The biggest obstacle to learning something is the belief that you already know it.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The typical North American attention span is 6 minutes.
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
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.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Dream big by setting yourself seemingly impossible challenges. You will then have to catch up with them.
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