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From Roger:

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift."-- Albert Einstein

From Jim

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."  Steve Jobs

"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."  Woody Allen

"Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure."  Albert Einstein

From Crystie

"Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress" - Ted Levitt

"The practice of R&D involves making mistakes, realizations, corrections, and more mistakes. Trial and error is a fundamental part of the process. Too many managers in corporate America learn to avoid invention and new thinking because they have been convinced that their careers depend upon not making mistakes." - Tom Huff

"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of old ones." - John Cage

"Never innovate to compete, innovate to change the rules of the game." - David O. Adeife

"The very word possibility creates a mental climate conducive to creativity." - Robert H. Schuller

From Bobby

Quotes by Albert Einstein:

... "Imagination is more important than knowledge."

... "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."

... "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

... "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

... "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

... "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

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"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." - Samuel Johnson

"Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I will understand" -- American Proverb

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you can" -- Teddy Roosevelt

"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing" -- Aristotle

"No one has the right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much to do" — Dorothy Day

"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible" -- Saint Francis

"The road to success is always under construction" -- Author Unknown

"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is" -- H. Jackson Browne

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation" -- Plato

"There are cracks in everything; that's how the light gets in."--Leonard Cohen

"Success is getting up one more time than you fall down." -  Rev. Darrell W. Boswell

"The secret to success is to plan for failure." - Anonymous

"Innovation = revolution not evolution" - Dawn Grover

"Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist." - Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop

"Ideas are only as good as your ability to make them happen." - Thinking with Hexagons book, Idon Thinking Resources Ltd.

"If you always think what you always thought, you'll always get what you always got." - Gerald Haman

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead were there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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