A Quote by Jessica Livingston

Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.

Jessica Livingston

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Battle Inevitable Innovations Retrospect Seem Time Uphill

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Jessica Livingston
American - Author
Born: 1971

In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible.

Michael McFaul

My hair is a battle. It's an uphill, fine, baby-haired battle.

Emma Stone

It's always a struggle. It's an uphill battle the whole time. But you know what? The rewards are so graet, I wouldn't trade it for the world.

Jennifer Lopez

There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations.

Clayton M. Christensen

If there is no way out and confrontation and battle is inevitable, one can use power and strategy, balance and wisdom and enlightenment to win, of course. But the best battle is the battle that is never fought.

Frederick Lenz

I've never written a book with an outline or a predetermined theme. It's only in retrospect that themes or subjects become identifiable. That's the fun of it: discovering what's next. I'm often surprised by plot developments I would not have dreamed of starting out, but that, in the course of the writing, come to seem inevitable.

Susan Choi

Being a Diva in a man's world, you're constantly in an uphill battle; pitching ideas, trying to get TV time, trying to get in-ring time, the whole nine yards.

Michelle McCool

It's a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.

Billy Gibbons

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To have depression, it's such an uphill battle and I feel for everyone that has it because it's hard to have it.

Angelina Pivarnick

If you cast a film incorrectly, then you're going to be fighting an uphill battle.

Clint Eastwood

It's always an uphill battle. You know, I'm a Republican in Maryland. This is the bluest of the blue.

Bob Ehrlich

Companies, in fact, are specifically organized to under-invest in disruptive innovations! This is one reason why we often suggest that companies set up separate teams or groups to commercialize disruptive innovations. When disruptive innovations have to fight with other innovations for resources, they tend to lose out.

Clayton M. Christensen

Theodore Roosevelt is among the most captivating of presidents in our time, but his administration is often underestimated. Roosevelt's successes in domestic and international affairs are so wide-ranging as to appear obvious or inevitable in retrospect.