
There is a better way to do it—find it.
- Topic: Innovation, Perception, Persistence, Work
- Location: Capital Reef National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship…the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
› Peter Drucker
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
› Steve Jobs
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
› Albert Einstein
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
› Nelson Mandela
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
› Helen Keller
It is an ecological, theological, and biological reality: The more we are in tune with eternal nature, the more we will be able to hear the still small voice within and have explosions of inspirational insight.
› Robert Schuller
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
› Niccolo Machiavelli
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
› Benedict Spinoza
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
› John Wooden
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
› Epictetus
Football is like life—it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
› Vince Lombardi
Faced with a mountain, I will not quit. I will keep on striving until I climb over it, find a path through it, tunnel under it, or simply stay and turn it into a gold mine.
› Robert Schuller
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
› Albert Einstein
Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.
› Paramahansa Yogananda
Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence—natural ability notwithstanding.
› Stephen Covey
The secret of success is conviction and persistence.
› Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.
› William Arthur Ward
It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
› Eleanor Roosevelt
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
› Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each well-born soul must win what it deserves.
› Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.
› Theodore Roosevelt
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
› Henry David Thoreau
