Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.
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Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.
EDITH WIDDER Desperation sometimes drives innovation.
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CHELLIE PINGREE Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship. It drives everything: Job creation, poverty al...
ELLIOTT BISNOW For America's economic future to remain prosperous, we must encourage pro-growth policies so tha...
JOHN ENSIGN Domestic is still the engine that drives the train,
BRANDON GRAY Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibi...
LEON KASS I.T. is a particularly effective enabling tool. But without the competitive intensity that drives pe...
DIANA FARRELL The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... eve...
SUZI QUATRO Man created Guilt. Guilt is the Perpetual Engine that Drives the World.
VINEET RAJ KAPOOR There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but t...
NAVAL RAVIKANT The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES We have a patent system that is out of balance and in some respects is impeding innovation and econo...
CARL SHAPIRO Patents are a constitutionally protected right and they have been an engine of innovation and econom...
JAMES MALACKOWSKI AT&T is interested in anything that drives more bandwidth requirements, and Apple TV drives sign...
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, n...
WILLIAM E. SIMON I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out...
JEFF BEZOS The innovation scoreboard clearly shows that we have to do more for innovation. Boosting innovation ...
GUNTER VERHEUGEN NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration...
BILL NYE Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
MICHAEL PORTER Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity
MICHAEL PORTER There is a great trade-off that exists between growth and equality. If economic growth is desired, i...
DOUGLAS J UTBERG I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many...
INDRA NOOYI One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sail...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX For CEOs today, it's all about achieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about pr...
GINNI ROMETTY He must needs go that the devil drives. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific ...
TIM BISHOP If the innovation process goes offshore, America will lose much of its capacity to generate wealth, ...
JOEL POPKIN Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like b...
BEN HOROWITZ Motivation is the fuel that drives the engine towards the destination of salvation and stagnation is...
NICHOLAS CHARLES RHODES America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, inn...
FAREED ZAKARIA As the world's sole remaining super power and economic powerhouses, our nation's ability to ...
LEONARD BOSWELL The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island!
DONALD L. CARCIERI We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs f...
RICK LARSEN Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint.
NEIL PEART This is nasty, as this is done on all mounted drives, ie. any drive that has a drive letter. So it m...
MIKKO HYPPONEN The Internet's open, neutral architecture has proven to be an enormous engine for market innovation,...
VINT CERF It is not just disposable income but whether people feel good about their immediate future that driv...
JOHANN RUPERT He must needs go that the devil drives.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Investing capital in the free market creates innovation, businesses, jobs and economic growth. Inves...
MICHAEL RAMIREZ Our goal is to drive growth and innovation in Europe by investing in the three core categories of Ke...
JOE JIMENEZ Whether or not people go into space or serve the space industry, they will have the sensitivity to t...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innova...
GEOFFREY WEST Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and wil...
VIVEK WADHWA continued innovation on the Internet and the growth of electronic commerce.
BILL CAMPBELL Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the...
TED LEVITT Social justice is what drives me; it's why I'm here.
KATHLEEN WYNNE Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government's...
REINCE PRIEBUS Let your courage and determination be the vehicle that drives you, and takes you anywhere in this li...
ROBERT M. HENSEL If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
BILL GATES I've always been very attentive to detail. It's a characteristic that drives some people cra...
ALAN W. LIVINGSTON I started to think about what drives innovation and what its social significance might be. The next ...
EDMUND PHELPS You can't be on the cusp of innovation and at the forefront of technology if you're wearing ...
GWYNNE SHOTWELL America's peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few ...
EDMUND PHELPS We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our custom...
STEVE BALLMER America's experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just a...
JOE BIDEN Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel th...
HARVEY MACKAY It's the need for change that drives us to join forces with our brothers and sisters all around ...
ERIC BURDON Questioning is important for breakthrough innovation that in future companies will have a CXO level ...
SAURABH GUPTA EARTH5R The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.
PIERO SCARUFFI Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the ki...
GARY VAYNERCHUK The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a searc...
SERGEY BRIN Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
N. ROBERT HAMMER I go for drives in the Flint Hills, which is the setting for 'The Virgin of Small Plains'.
NANCY PICKARD Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.
MARC JACOBS For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovatio...
STEVE CASE One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails an...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Facilitating innovation growth in China through partnership is an important part of Nokia's mission ...
DAVID HO Facilitating innovation growth in China through partnership is an important part of Nokia's mission ...
DAVID HO [On-demand] is the type of disruptive innovation that has re-energized the single-digit growth softw...
ERIN TRAUDT People always ask why I stay in the online space versus going to TV or film, like most people would ...
FELICIA DAY Women are naturally competitive. That's what drives women to form cliques at early age.
LESLIE MORGAN STEINER If you are realistic about how our present society works, the economic clout - and a lot of the poli...
PETER SENGE One ship drives east and the other drives west by the self same winds that
blow. It's the set of the...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots o...
DYLAN THOMAS Twitter has already birthed an entire ecosystem of other sites that extend its power or interact wit...
ERIN MCKEAN All too often, a corporate innovation initiative starts and ends with a board meeting mandate to the...
STEVE BLANK When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits a...
RAY LAMONTAGNE I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.
WARREN SPECTOR When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil
drives.)
JOHN HEYWOOD For new jobs and more employment, we need stronger growth and we can only achieve that via innovatio...
HEINRICH VON PIERER I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the b...
BILL GATES The stuff drives you crazy, if you let it. That's why you can't scoreboard watch. It doesn't do any ...
CHONE FIGGINS In the U.S. and Europe, there has been a lot of creative hobby innovation, and that's great.
ERIK HERSMAN What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but ...
EDMUND PHELPS I want love, passion, honesty, and companionship... sex that drives me crazy and conversation that d...
STEVE MARABOLI The history of exploration across nations and across time is not one where nations said, 'Let...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON The regulatory systems in place disincentive innovation. It's intense to fight the red tape.
TRAVIS KALANICK Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.
LI KEQIANG When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, ...
JACK MILLER It's hard to get momentum going when you go on long drives and come away with no points at all. But ...
DAVID MAHONEY In the private sector, there is always innovation. There's always change. There's always imp...
MITT ROMNEY Leapfrog innovation - consistent, constant, ridiculous leapfrog innovation - only happens within a d...
ASHTON KUTCHER Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
EDWARD ABBEY In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic ...
TOM VILSACK What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.
JODI PICOULT The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with ver...
STEVE JOBS Our strategic realignment towards innovation and growth has brought a sustained improvement in the B...
WERNER WENNING (about cats) They also resist our calls to come, to move, to obey, to present themselves, to do all ...
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EDITH WHARTON The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it th...
EDITH STEIN All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself...
EDITH STEIN A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community un...
EDITH STEIN During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impert...
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EDITH STEIN Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mot...
EDITH STEIN Whoever resorts regularly to the lessons of Holy Scripture as an apt pupil will take the Savior into...
EDITH STEIN As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people...
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EDITH STEIN The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation ...
EDITH STEIN One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And t...
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EDITH STEIN Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is t...
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EDITH SITWELL The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
EDITH SITWELL I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am...
EDITH SITWELL I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
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EDITH SITWELL A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
EDITH SITWELL People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looki...
EDITH SCHAEFFER The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from.
EDITH ROGERS I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinki...
EDITH ROGERS But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should conf...
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EDITH HEAD I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.
EDITH HEAD With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women star...
EDITH HEAD Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright col...
EDITH HEAD Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap i...
EDITH HEAD As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothi...
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EDITH HEAD If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. J...
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EDITH HEAD A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
EDITH HEAD Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your ...
EDITH HEAD There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.
EDITH HEAD Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.
EDITH HEAD Some people need sequins, others don't.
EDITH HEAD I've dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is m...
EDITH HEAD My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
EDITH HEAD Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, beca...
EDITH HEAD You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.
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EDITH HEAD The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who wil...
EDITH HAMILTON To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
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EDITH HAMILTON The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
EDITH HAMILTON When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
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EDITH EVANS I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
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EDITH WHARTON Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
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EDITH WHARTON Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
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EDITH HAMILTON It makes sense that there is no sense without God.
EDITH SCHAEFFER A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
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EDITH HAMILTON Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
EDITH HAMILTON It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying
yourself when you aren't.
EDITH NESBIT Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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EDITH WHARTON My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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EDITH WHARTON Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with t...
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EDITH WHARTON I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
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EDITH SITWELL Poetry is the deification of reality.
EDITH SITWELL My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
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EDITH HAMILTON Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming t...
EDITH HEAD Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analo...
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EDITH WHARTON I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
EDITH PIAF My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.
EDITH WHARTON The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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EDITH HEAD Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young grateful...
EDITH HEAD There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
EDITH WHARTON Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
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EDITH WHARTON When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
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EDITH WHARTON Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
EDITH WHARTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility,
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EDITH HAMILTON To be able to be caught up into the world of thought that is being educated.
EDITH HAMILTON Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
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EDITH STEIN All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.
EDITH PEARLMAN An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...
EDITH WHARTON All I've done all my life is disobey.
EDITH PIAF There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
EDITH WHARTON It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual...
EDITH WHARTON A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
EDITH HEAD