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.
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.
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.
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.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by product of that preparation.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
I have not failed, I’ve just found ten thousand ways that won’t work.
The task of Leadership is not to put greatness into people but to elicit it. For the greatness is there already.
You’re only given a small spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
Most use technology to define the function. We use function to drive the technology.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.
It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
A fish doesn’t know it’s wet.
Success comes in cans, not can’t’s.
Pain is temporary. Glory is forever.
Someday isn’t a real day like Monday or Tuesday, it’s just another word for ‘never’.
There are no old roads to new directions.
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.
Good questions outrank easy answers.
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Some disappointment is always the price of brave dreaming.
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.
If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
The first instinct in responding to this sudden economic crisis is to hunker down and wait for the storm to pass. That is the instinct, but acting on it would be a grave mistake. Our challenge today is radical transformation. Change at the margins will not do. The choice, it seems to me, is this: Reinvention or extinction. If we think it cannot happen to us, we ought to recall the fate of the Swiss watchmakers. Fabulous craftsmen, certainly, but the world has moved on, technologies have advanced, habits have shifted.
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
The biggest obstacle to learning something is the belief that you already know it.
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