Top 1200 Social Innovation Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

There's an overemphasis on conservation and other idyllic energy sources that can be harmful in that it hampers new technology and innovation.

I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.

The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.

Without net neutrality protections, the Internet would no longer be a free and open ecosystem for innovation.

The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is a crime against the student mind. It is like teaching a child how to pronounce words but not what they mean.

Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers.

Microsoft has some assets like Office that have stayed strong and there's so much room for innovation in those.

Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.

Without the ambition to raise oneself to life's challenges, growth and innovation would never happen.

Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

Start-up should focus on innovation not on building on infrastructure. Thanks to Google cloud service they can.

Innovation, I believe, is the only way that America will regain the initiative in a global dynamic economy.

Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

The Producers Guild represents the creativity, innovation and dynamism that sets our industry apart from all others.

The story of our species is one of overcoming existential risk through new forms of cooperation and innovation.

We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.

We want to encourage investors to target businesses that focus on achieving more than just profits - by placing their money into businesses that also positively contribute to social or environmental benefits in Ontario. Angel investors can help social enterprises grow and succeed, and through our partnership with the Network of Angel Organizations and the Impact Angel Alliance, we are making it easier for social ventures and angel investors to connect, contribute, and make our society a better place to live.

Surprise drives progress because innovation depends on the sort of knowledge no one can gather in a central place.

Managing innovation better may be the only way out of the abyss called commodity hell.

A 'social media fast' is a fast, I suppose like any other. In this case, you're simply giving up whether it be a device or a particular type of social media site. And I do this at least once weekly.

Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture.

No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.

We gravitated to the idea of social entrepreneurs when it was a fairly nascent thing. We began to build the organization, focused on investing in and celebrating social entrepreneurs. Not long after that, we realized there was another opportunity to help bring them together and tell their stories.

It is the office of the school environment to balance the various elements in the social environment, and to see to it that each individual gets an opportunity to escape from the limitations of the social group in which he was born, and to come into living contact with a broader environment.

India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.

I am committed to ensuring San Francisco remains a center for tech and the innovation capital of the world.

The globalized nature of production and innovation means that the benefits don't necessarily stay in the country where the investments are made.

The university and in a general way, all teaching systems, which appear simply to disseminate knowledge, are made to maintain a certain social class in power; and to exclude the instruments of power of another social class.

All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.

I have always been interested in following the technology that I feel are presenting themselves as true industry and innovation.

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

It's every teacher's job to be rigorous about constantly being open to new ideas and innovation.

The Jewish state has so much to teach diaspora Jews about resilience, innovation, energy, and optimism.

I'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet.

Many sports, not just football, have kind of the macho meathead mentality where innovation is almost frowned upon.

Innovation is a discipline not a lottery... It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and openmindedness.

Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.

There are only two things in a business that make money - innovation and marketing, everything else is cost.

As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles.

What I would not do is flaunt my Indianess by wearing a saree to work everyday, because it distracts from the job. So, I would not do that. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Social events are different. If I feel comfortable in a saree for a social event, I wear it.

We may not have the cheapest labor costs, but where we can compete is innovation. Historically, that's been Connecticut's strength, and it can be again.

We began to temper Western democracy with what I'd call a social contract. We put in Social Security, graduated income tax, workers' compensation. We developed strong unions to negotiate with business owners so workers got an equitable share of the profits.

I believe strongly that social change isn't just about demonstrations in the street against the wrongs in society. There is also the path of the social innovator who creates new institutions and the path of the reformer who goes within an institution and makes incremental changes.

On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express creatively his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole.

Innovation is key. Only those who have the agility to change with the market and innovate quickly will survive.

Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions.

Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

The thing about innovation in financial markets is they're always building on what has come before. It's a natural process.

Technological innovation is the successful implementation (in commerce or management) of a technical idea new to the institution creating it.

Meaningful innovation can be an important catalyst in encouraging resilience in seniors, keeping them independent and engaged.

Natural light consistently fosters innovation, as does the avoidance of disturbances from noise and extreme temperatures.

Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do.

Conscience is the spiritual, supernatural principle in man, and it is not of social origin at all. It is rather the perversion and confusion of conscience that is of social origin.

If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers.

Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world.

Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.

Universities which deliver high quality research and innovation will be an essential part of that future.