Top 1200 Social Innovation Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The innovation and creativity that's so manifest in the rest of society needs to be turned on our school systems.

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.

The only way the gender divide affected me was the social things the younger guy executives could do with their bosses. I don't know what went on in the clubs, because I didn't go. I made sure my work was stellar, and that compensated for whatever social time we weren't spending together.

What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?

The thing that distinguishes social systems from physical or even biological systems is their incomparable (and embarrassing) richness in special cases. Generalizations in the social sciences are mere pathways which lead through a riotous forest of individual trees, each a species unto itself. The social scientist who loses this sense of the essential individuality and uniqueness of each case is all too likely to make a solemn scientific ass of himself, especially if he thinks that his faceless generalizations are the equivalents of the rich vareity of the world.

Young people understand that there is not a Social Security trust fund. Social Security is a pay-as-you-go system, where today's millennials are paying for today's seniors.

Innovation comes from, one, acknowledging yourself; two, studying and understanding the problem; and three, finding a solution.

To see off Corbyn's Labour, we need to start the debate as to how and why a market economy is the way to deliver prosperity, social mobility, fully funded public services, and the means to address their concerns about the environment and social justice.

No other area offers richer opportunities for successful innovation than the unexpected success.

Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.

Innovation will come from an ecosystem of pervasive computing so natural and all-encompassing that it disappears into the background.

One of the big no-nos in cyberspace is that you do not go into a social activity, a chat group or something like that, and start advertising or selling things. This etiquette rule is an attempt to separate one's social life, which should be pure enjoyment and relaxation, from the pressures of work.

Whether you're a farmer, builder or engineer, the opportunities are equal: Just add a little innovation.

I have to tell you that the innovation and the technology and the entrepreneurship of the world still lies in the United States of America.

A Midwestern municipal government isn't the first thing that leaps to mind when you think of innovation, but it ought to be.

All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up.

The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.

I want to be in an industry where the upstarts can grow and displace the incumbents, because that's why there's so much innovation.

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

The economic and social theories used by those who take part in the social struggle ought to be judged not by their objective value but primarily for their effectiveness in arousing emotions. The scientific refutation of them which can be made is useless, however correct it may be objectively.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

Germany and France are pinning their hopes on young people, in terms of education, science and innovation.

In Boston terms I was everyone and no one, with no social investment, no social insecurity, sort of Imitation of Christ in one hand and The Education of Henry Adams in the other, and because I was part of nothing I could observe everything without having anything personal invested in the findings.

I don't take the Internet and social media very seriously. I've grown up around social media but to me what happens on the Internet just doesn't feel real.

When the social network doesn't find it convenient to have privacy, we say, "Okay, social network, you don't want privacy, maybe we won't have it either." But we did this without having the conversation.

In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

Far from doing what it can to ensure that the companies and entrepreneurs of tomorrow are European, the E.U. actively stifles innovation.

I don't know that there is a, quote, 'hip-hop lifestyle.' I think the music responds to complex social issues and injustices; I think it also raises complex social questions.

This movie came as a reaction to reality. I realized that I do not know that 80 of the population that lives poor in my city. I wanted to make a social experiment putting in the same car several people from different social classes, just to see what would happen.

The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.

There's a fashion, or maybe you could call it a necessity, in French cinema to make social films, which is to say films in which the characters are defined by their social context.

The way that social norms become social norms is not through any systematic process. It is through a flowering of an understanding within a culture.

A tablet replacing an exercise book is not innovation, it's just a different way to make notes.

When I look at Social Security, I consider it the most important social program in the United States, arguably the most successful program in the world.

I'm very lucky to work at bitly, with a data set that allows us to explore human social behavior at the scale of human social behavior.

A pioneering and invaluable work about what it really takes to build innovation capability in society.

Skunk works were emblematic of corporate structures that focused on execution and devalued innovation.

There needs to be a bigger focus on creative innovation versus business models and cash flow.

Big part of the challenge to innovation is that people too easily resign themselves to dying.

I think of jazz as being homage through innovation. Don't quote that as a definition, but it comes pretty close.

Governments cannot do innovation. There are too many audits, and no one stays in a role for long enough.

Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.

Competition is one click away. Innovation happens everywhere... you better have a culture asking for a voice.

Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships.

We completely ignore social media. Bradley Simpson also isn't on social media very much. I think we just try to live in reality as much as we can.

The [film] industry, from the franchise on, has dramatically changed, not just with us, but with social networking. The social working has changed dramatically, especially in the way you promote films. It's instant.

Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty.

Adaptability and constant innovation is key to the survival of any company operating in a competitive market.

Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.

Coming out of university, one of my obsessions was that in the novels I was reading, they seemed to be portraying a world that had a social fabric. People knew each other in 'War and Peace.' They went to all the same balls. These were societies with tightly wound, woven, social textures.

Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.

With the right policies and regulations, the opportunities for American medical advancement and scientific innovation are boundless.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

All businesses should have an element of social enterprise, and all social enterprises should not ignore the most important lessons from successful commercial businesses.

When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that.

I design for social media. My customer reads blogs, is on social media, so I design with contrast in mind. An all-black shirt looks good on the shelf but not online.

This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of one quarter of our adult population recalls the extremism of Prohibition, the last national crusade against a supposed social evil.

We need a tax code that promotes savings, investment, achievement, innovation, and hard work.

Most learning is social, or what I call the cultural DNA. Everyone knows that word of mouth advertising is the best advertising. That's social learning.

Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish.