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Given the blatant deceit regarding the biologically harmful effects of antenna towers, cell phones and WiFi radiation, one can only wonder what is going on with all of the other forms of radiation.
— Steven Magee
THE KEY TO A WONDERFUL LIFEThe key to a wonderful lifeIs to never stop wandering into wonder.Because to live a predictable life,Only fills a person with strife,And such a person will always be wondering:'What a limitless life could be lived beyond the lines?'Such is a question a curious spirit would never sit and ponder.So always pursue new ventures in your life,And be willing to open doors to different light;This is the only way to keep it magical and always filled with wonder.Days will feel shorter, but your happiness will grow stronger --Because living a life without curiosity and adventure,Is a stale life where days only feel longer andLonger.Poetry by Suzy Kassem
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
The world’s magic sneaks up on you in secret, settles next to you when you have your head turned.
— Bill Clegg, Did You Ever Have a Family
This also means that philosophy itself must not take itself as established in the truths it has managed to utter, that philosophy is an ever-renewed experiment of its own beginning, and finally, that radical reflection is conscious of its own dependence on an unreflected life that is its initial, constant, and final situation.
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception
The big, bad unknown is only that until it is known. Then you look back and wonder what all the fuss and worry was about.
— S.A. Tawks, The Spirit of Pessimism
Artists must remain in a state of awe to remain artists.
— Marty Rubin
I have often felt that when an Atheist asks "Where is your God?" it means even he has an innermost desire to see 'The One' whom he has been rejecting all his life and when an unbeliever asks "Where is your God?" it means he is fed-up with the hand crafted God he has been meaninglessly serving all his life and in his heart even he wants to see the wonder working true living God in all His glory.
— Santosh Thankachan
If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change! But now the silent succession suggests nothing but necessity. To most men only the cessation of the miracle would be miraculous and the perpetual exercise of God’s power seems less wonderful than its withdrawal would be.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh
At the back of our brains, so to speak, there was a forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life was to dig for this submerged sunrise of wonder.
— G.K. Chesterton
I mulled over the implications and decided not to waste my time worrying about what everyone else thought, or to bother attempting to change their perceptions. My time at the Keep was just a stopover. Let them wonder.
— Maria V. Snyder, Magic Study
Perhaps soul mates don’t exist, I thought. Maybe they were only a way to get over a loss that couldn’t be forgotten, a way to mend a heart that was unredeemable—an aberrant remedy that dissolved long before the healing began. A way to love a numberless amount of times when it was finite all along. Perhaps love was this illusory wonder and we were reaching for the impossible. Maybe it wasn’t likely to know someone so completely and maybe, just maybe… there was no beauty in having a soul.
— Nadège Richards, Embracing Embers
There is no end to wonder once one starts really looking.
— Marty Rubin
Those who dwell , as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations and concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner contentment and to renewed excitement in living. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for spring. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature--the reassurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
— Rachel Carson
Though I loved the wired world, the new-wave librarians, the avatars and activists, I turned into a dinosaur in that library. I couldn’t help it; I was an old-fashioned writer who loved the ancient books summoned via pneumatic tubes, the archives, the quiet. I had found something rare there: an inexhaustible wonder.
— Marilyn Johnson, This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
I was overcome by a wave of wonder at how much good was going on, and how you heard about the bad things that happened so much that you overlooked the immensely disproportionate majority of other acts done to the real benefit of self and others without which none of this would be here at all.
— Ken MacLeod, Descent
Wonder, as a quality of intellect, has fallen from favor.
— Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness
A man who needs the unusual to make him "wonder" shows that he has lost the capacity to find the true answer to the wonder of being. The itch for sensation, even though disguised in the mask of Boheme, is a sure indication of a bourgeois mind and a deadened sense of wonder.
— Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis Of Culture
I wonder what else I could do that I never thought I could.
— Wendy Mass, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
The world was so beautiful, and there was so much of it: he could gaze forever at the wonder of leaves and not see them all: could inhale the wind and not smell all its scents, hear the sounds of men and horses and not hear all the sounds of the woods, and taste the thousand flavors in stale water and still find it wonderful... because it was not the darkness.
— C.J. Cherryh, Fortress of Dragons
When you didn't force yourself to think in formal reconstructions, when you didn't catch these moments of ravishments under the lens of premises and conclusions, when you didn't impale them and label them, like so many splayed butterflies, bleeding the transcendental glow right out of them, then... what?
— Rebecca Goldstein, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction
its a beautiful thing in my mind, to be involved with oneself, not in vanity, but in wonder, who knew such a small head could be big enough to contain reality itself. we really must give ourselves more credit than we do.
— Andrew Kadziolka
Guys can't tell girls what to do. That's an unspoken rule. Learn that now and you'll be way ahead of the game.
— Travis Thrasher, Wonder
Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m strickenby the ricochet wonder of it all: the plaineverythingness of everything, in cahootswith the everythingness of everything else.- From Diffraction (for Carl Sagan)
— Diane Ackerman
Each nugget of information was fascinating. The world was full of new-found marvels and he wanted to share the excitement with everybody. They all did. They had a certain sense. It wasn't a sense of ennui or cynicism. It was . . . A sense of wonder.That was it. A sense of wonder, in the fine old original meaning of the word. They wondered at their world. Because when you did that, everything was wonder-full.
— Larry Niven
Wisdom is a dreadfully wonderful gift,giving you great insight but terrible pain that you learn from.
— Royal Cromwell
God travels wonderful ways with human beings, but he does not comply with the views and opinions of people. God does not go the way that people want to prescribe for him; rather, his way is beyond all comprehension, free and self-determined beyond all proof. Where reason is indignant, where our nature rebels, where our piety anxiously keeps us away: that is precisely where God loves to be. There he confounds the reason of the reasonable; there he aggravates our nature, our piety—that is where he wants to be, and no one can keep him from it. Only the humble believe him and rejoice that God is so free and so marvelous that he does wonders where people despair, that he takes what is little and lowly and makes it marvelous. And that is the wonder of all wonders, that God loves the lowly…. God is not ashamed of the lowliness of human beings. God marches right in. He chooses people as his instruments and performs his wonders where one would least expect them. God is near to lowliness; he loves the lost, the neglected, the unseemly, the excluded, the weak and broken.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas
Truth is so rare. I wonder why it is and where you are?
— Debasish Mridha
Footsteps are the wonders of staying alive to move forward
— Munia Khan
For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.
— Aristotle, Metaphysics
I am a great scholar, my mind is full of wonders.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for instance, as man and woman, both lover and mistress, I rode in a forest on an autumn afternoon under the yellow leaves, and I was also the horses, the leaves, the wind, the words my people uttered, even the red sun that made them almost close their love-drowned eyes.” ― Gustave Flaubert
— Gustave Flaubert
If you think about it, we get robbed of the mystery of being alive. I think we get robbed of the glory of it because we don't remember how we got here. When you get born, you wake up slowly to everything. From birth to 26, God is slowly turning on the lights, and you are groggy and pointing at things, and say "Circle," and, "Blue,", and, "Car," and, "Sex," and then, "Job," and, "Healthcare". The experience is so slow, you could easily come to believe life isn't that big of a deal, that life isn't staggering. Life IS staggering, and we are just too used to it.
— Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.
Those, therefore, who effect to despise "profane" Science are themselves despicable. It is their own incapacity for true Thought of any serious kind, their vanity and pertness; nay more also! their own subconsciousness sense of their own shame and idleness, that induces them to build these flimsy fortification of pretentious ignorance.
— Aleister Crowley, Little Essays Toward Truth
On bad days you wonder, ‘Why not just back off from the war and lead a quiet metalife?
— David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
What's seldom is wonderful.
— John Connolly, Dark Hollow
Learn to Open Your Heart and mind to the infinite wonder that exists for you in life
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
There was no denying it. Boys grabbed him. Their loveliness tore him apart. The world was a wonder after all.
— Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
To love and be loved is a wonder.
— Peggy Sue Wells
The ‘deep pause’ needed to cultivate wonder is far too often back-filled with an incessant busyness, as busyness errantly presumes a ‘deep pause’ to be deeply wasteful.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The more you rely on intellectual and philosophical concepts of God, the more difficult it becomes to simply experience and enjoy the wonder of God.
— Mac MacKenzie
I wonder, though…what would it be like? To be that close to a boy and have him see all of you, no holding back.
— Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before
What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
— Robert Henri, The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on their hind legs, observing the world through pairs of flexible little lenses, periodically supplying themselves with energy by pushing organic substances through holes in their faces, who see nothing fabulous whatever about themselves.
— Martin Gardner, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
She goes on with her beautiful hair and mouth like before,I go on like before, alone in the field.It’s like my head had been lowered,And if I think this, and raise my headAnd the golden sun dries the need to cry I can’t stop having.How vast the field and interior love... !I look, and I forget, like dryness where there was water and trees losing their leaves.
— Alberto Caeiro, O Pastor Amoroso
Since these wonder tales have been with us for thousands of years and have undergone so many different changes in the oral tradition, it is difficult to determine the ideological intention of the narrator, and when we disregard the narrator's intention, it is often difficult to reconstruct (and/or deconstruct) the ideological meaning of a tale. In the last analysis, even if we cannot establish whether a wonder tale is ideologically conservative, sexist, progressive, emancipatory, etc., it is the celebration of wonder that constitutes its major appeal. No matter what the plot may be, this type of tale calls forth our capacity as readers and potential transmitters of its signs and meanings to wonder. We do not want to know the exact resolution, the "happily ever after," of a tale - that is, what it is actually like. We do not want to name God, gods, goddesses, or fairies, who will forever remain mysterious and omnipotent. We do not want to form graven images. We do not want utopia designated for us. We want to remain curious, startled, provoked, mystified, and uplifted. We want to glare, gaze, gawk, behold, and stare. We want to be given opportunities to change, and ultimately we want to be told that we can become kings and queens, or lords of our own destinies. We remember wonder tales and fairy tales to keep our sense of wonderment alive and to nurture our hope that we can seize possibilities and opportunities to transform ourselves and our worlds.
— Jack D. Zipes, Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture
A more wonderful life and a more beautiful world is one thought away.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
God is a strange and mysterious master, and I no doubt am a strange and mysterious servant, but from this day forward I am His. I am forever changed, by my own choice, and I wonder if He is too.
— Kimberly Elkins, What Is Visible
I know it does not matter that I do not understand.
— Brendan Kennelly
Do any of them realize that Simon Wolfgard is falling in love with Meg Corbyn? Monty wondered. Does Wolfgard understand his own response to the girl? What about Meg? How does she feel? What would the rest of the Others do if one of their kind did fall in love with a human?
— Anne Bishop, Murder of Crows
MYSTERIES, YES Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the lambs. How rivers and stones are forever in allegiance with gravity while we ourselves dream of rising. How two hands touch and the bonds will never be broken. How people come, from delight or the scars of damage, to the comfort of a poem. Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say "Look!" and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.
— Mary Oliver, Evidence: Poems
The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension, and once again, the warm tears freeze upon my face. These rocks and mountains, all this matter, the snow itself, the air- the earth is ringing. All is moving, full of power, full of light.
— Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard
The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish.
— Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
The Princess of Parma was a Courvoisier in that she was incapable of innovation in social matters, but unlike the Courvoisiers in that the surprises the Duchesse de Guermantes perpetually held in store for her engendered in her not, as in them, antipathy but a sense of wonder.
— Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks" - Wonder - this is absolutely beautiful
— R. J.Palacio
Being reveals itself in all its beauty, splendor, and mystery “to him who contemplates it reverently.” ... What's the most beautiful part of the world, the part that has the greatest dignity? It’s not really a part but a person – it’s every person. Personal being is the greatest wonder of the cosmos.
— Michael Gaitley, The One Thing Is Three: How the Most Holy Trinity Explains Everything
Things you'd never even seen with Finn could remind you of him, because he was the one person you'd want to show. "Look at that," you'd want to say, because you knew he would find a way to think it was wonderful. To make you feel like the most observant person in the world for spotting it.
— Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home
I know cigarettes can kill & wonder why she wants to die.
— Nick Flynn, Some Ether
She came out of her reverie with a deep sigh and looked at him with a dreamy gaze of a soul that had been wandering afar, star-led.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, to make us consider that we should trust our intuition as they trust theirs and to help us realize that a thing known intuitively can be as real as anything known by material experience.
— Dean Koontz
For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.
— Francis Bacon, The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon
The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased at anything, is called the historical sense or historical culture.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
sometimes i think my head is so big because its full of dreams
— R.J. Palacio
We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the things that frighten us in life and art with wonder.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
As someone who struggles with anxiety and cowardice, as we all do, I’m profoundly inspired by. . . . full-on commitment to wonder, to wonder as a response to anguish or difficulty. It makes everything a puzzle, right? A catastrophe is nothing but a puzzle with the volume of drama turned up very high.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Every day is one step closer to the precious truth; ervery day can teach you the wonder, if you're willing to see those.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
One of the reasons I grew my hair long last year was that I like how my bangs cover my eyes: it helps me block out the things I don't want to see."-August thinking
— R.J. Palacio, Wonder
I wonder how many women are held up in their bed waiting to be sung to, served wine to, read poetry to, kissed slowly with.
— Brandon Villasenor, I Can't Stop Drinking About You
Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.
— Lise Meitner
I still find the moon more amazing than the fact men have walked on it.
— Marty Rubin
Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.
— J. Tuzo Wilson
God is just a name for our wonder.
— Nadeem Aslam, The Blind Man's Garden
I wonder how you survived with those sugary lips
—  maybe there is no ant in your territory.
To speak of sparing anything because it is beautiful is to waste one’s breath and incur ridicule in the bargain. The aesthetic sense- the power to enjoy through the eye, and the ear, and the imagination- is just as important a factor in the scheme of human happiness as the corporeal sense of eating and drinking; but there has never been a time when the world would admit it.
— John Van Dyke
Craving is a good thing.In matters of culinary art, craving creates wonders.
— Andy Paula
That was a hell of a thing.
— Engineer Fred Kwan Galaxy Quest
Wonders happen either way. With you or without you.
— Sergey Vedenyo
I wonder how they convince their conscience believing in myths and fallacious stories.
— M.F. Moonzajer
...But wondering takes time, and most of the people of the neighborhood were hard-working people, and so they gradually began to forget.
— Zipha Keatley Snyder
Hannah, do you think that your mum and dad and Tate's mum and dad and my mum and dad and Webb and Tate are all together someplace?' she asks earnestly. I look at Hannah, waiting for the answer. And then she smiles. Webb once said that a Narnie smile was a revelation and, at this moment, I need a revelation. And I get one. 'I wonder,' Hannah says.
— Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road
The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.
— Rabindranath Tagore
And I wondered how it would feel to be in Heaven and not have my face matter anymore. Just like how it never, ever mattered to Daisy.
— R.J. Palacio
To one who loves birds, morning always wakes up singing.
— Marty Rubin
You read, move your lips, figure out the words, and it's like you're in two places at the same time: you're sitting or lying with your legs curled up, your hand groping in the bowl, but you can see different worlds, far-off worlds that maybe never existed but still seem real. You run or sail or race in a sleigh--you're running away from someone, or you yourself have decided to attack--your heart thumps, life flies by, and it's wondrous: you can live as many different lives as there are books to read.
— Tatyana Tolstaya, The Slynx
[an encounter in space] "Some celestial event. No--no words--no words to describe it. Poetry! They should have sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful...I had no idea. I had no idea.
— Carl Sagan
Like the discovery of most things - love and religion especially - she maintained the child's arrogant wonder than no one had understood it before her and, even if they had, they could not embrace it as passionately as she.
— Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows
Forrest Gander: "Maybe the best we can do is try to leave ourselves unprotected. To keep brushing off habits, how we see things and what we expect, as they crust around us. Brushing the green flies of the usual off the tablecloth. To pay attention.
— Brian Christian, The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
By fire, fever, storm and sword, your blood shall suffer this bane. No peace or joy for Wintersloe's lord, till the puzzle ring is whole again
— Kate Forsyth, The Puzzle Ring
I was still ringing. I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
— Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load.
— John Piper, David Brainerd: May I Never Loiter On My Heavenly Journey
My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.
— Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
And with a last stardrop, a last circle, I arrive, and she's there, chemical wonder in her eyes.
— Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke
Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
The true joy and wonder of life can only be yours if you follow your own intuition aiming to achieve your bliss.
— Steven Redhead, The Solution
You're a thousand small wonders, Kylie, love, adding up to one grand miracle.
— Dorien Kelly, The Last Bride in Ballymuir
The book did not say anything about a statue, valuable or otherwise, and so I stopped reading about the Bombinating Beast and got interested in the chapter about the Stain'd witches, who had ink instead of blood in their veins. I wondered what they kept in their pens.
— Lemony Snicket
Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
when that small Siberian bird fell out of the sky over Gray's River, not once but twice, he brought with him the sweetness of chance in any place, the certainty of wonder in all places. And if that's not grace, I don't know what it.
— Robert Michael Pyle, Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place
In that light, philosophy is not so much--or not simply--'the love of wisdom,' but instead marks the passage from wonder as a noun to wonder as a verb. Philosophy is the love of wisdom to the extent that it remains an incitement to it.
— Michael Munro
It is the final person we see reflected in our eyes that really matters; we wonder who is she and why is she here? To find ourselves truly, it is the goal we have all set for ourselves.
— Michelle Shen
When someone who's starved of love is shown something that looks like sincere affection, is it any wonder that she jumps at it and clings to it?
— Sayo Masuda, Autobiography of a Geisha
Wonder is always difficult until you forgive whoever destroyed your love of surprises.
— Edmond Manning, King Perry
A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud.
— G.K. Chesterton, Manalive
I find that, as a rule, when a thing is a wonder to us it is not because of what we see in it, but because of what others have seen in it. We get almost all our wonders at second hand.
— Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
Has modern society lost a measure of its spiritual awareness because we take so little time to walk? In not allowing ourselves time to slow down, to be close to the earth around us, have we become impervious to a God who chooses to reveal Himself through His creation?
— amy litzelman
Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have always been called troublemakers.
— Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss
I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.
— Henry Ford
In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.
— Eric Hoffer
Be a Columbus smell the fragrance of the new lands and discover them.
— Amit Ray, Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity
Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?
— Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune
Ignore the real world“That would never work in the real world.” You hear it all the time when you tell people about a fresh idea.This real world sounds like an awfully depressing place to live. It’s a place where new ideas, unfamiliar approaches, and foreign concepts alwayslose. The only things that win are what people already know and do, even if those things are flawed and inefficient.Scratch the surface and you’ll find these “real world” inhabitants are filled with pessimism and despair. They expect fresh concepts to fail. Theyassume society isn’t ready for or capable of change.Even worse, they want to drag others down into their tomb. If you’re hopeful and ambitious, they’ll try to convince you your ideas are impossible.They’ll say you’re wasting your time.
— David Heinemeier Hansson, Rework
In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade…. The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance. – T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom
— T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would never again be quite so 'easy' as they had been.
— Peter Watson, A Terrible Beauty: The People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern Mind: A History
The Brinktown jail is one of the most ingenious ever propounded by civic authorities. It must be remembered that Brinktown occupies the surface of a volcanic butte, overlooking a trackless jungle of quagmire, thorn, eel-vine skiver tussock. A single road leads from city down to jungle; the prisoner is merely locked out of the city. Escape is at his option; he may flee as far through the jungle as he sees fit: the entire continent is at his disposal. But no prisoner ever ventures far from the gate; and, when his presence is required, it is only necessary to unlock the gate and call his name.
— Jack Vance, The Star King
It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts. Then it was in the line of human advance that Einhorn could do so much.
— Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
Excellence must be achieved through the eyes of those who judge us
—  once achieved it can only be maintained with constant innovation.
Innovators are inevitably controversial.
— Eva Le Gallienne
[F]or all its reputation for conservatism, cricket in its history has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for innovation. What game has survived subjection to such extraordinary manipulations, having been prolonged to 10 days (in Durban 70 years ago), truncated to as few as 60 balls (in Hong Kong every year), and remained recognisable in each instance?
— Gideon Haigh
Innovation is the creation and delivery of new customer value in the marketplace.
— Michael J. Gelb, Innovate Like Edison: The Success System of America's Greatest Inventor
One keeps looking out for innovation in IPL, but of late it hasn't been all that obvious. Lionel Richie as an opening act? Johnny Mathis must have been busy. Matthew Hayden's Mongoose? Looks a bit like Bob Willis' bat with the "flow-through holes"; Saint Peter batting mitts are surely overdue a revival. The only genuinely intriguing step this year, bringing the IPL to YouTube, was forced on Modi by the collapse of Setanta; otherwise what Modi presents as 'innovation' is merely expansion by another name, in the number of franchises and the number of games.
— Gideon Haigh
Enthusiasm breeds quality and innovation
— Myra Yadav
The first finding that jumped out at us was that it is possible to learn too much ! In the tournament, investing lots of time in learning was not at all effective. In fact, we found a strong negative correlation between the proportion of a strategy's moves that were INNOVATE or OBSERVE, as opposed to EXPLOIT, and how well the strategy performed. Successful strategies spent only a small fraction of their time (5-10%) learning, and the bulk of their time caching in on what they had learned, through playing EXPLOIT. Only through playing EXPLOIT can a strategy directly accrue fitness. Hencem every time a strategy chooses to learn new behavior, be it through playing INNOVATE or OBSERVE, there is a cost corresponding to the payoff that would have been received had EXPLOIT been played instead. This implied that the way to get on in life was to do a very quick bit of learning and then EXPLOIT, EXPLOIT, EXPLOIT until you die. That is a sobering lesson for someone like myself who has spent his whole life in school or university.
— Kevin N. Laland, Darwin's Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind
The relentless act of invention and innovation and initiative is the best marketing asset.
— Seth Godin, Poke the Box
The board should set digital principles and guidelines for allowing the business to manage innovation in an effective way.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as
Innovation is too important to leave solely in the hands of the management team without any oversight or guidance by the boardroom.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as
The high-performing board shows the ability and openness to question itself and its decisions and discussions.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as
The need for security often kills the quest for innovation.
— Haresh Sippy
Desperation is the best innovator
— Tony   Cleaver, A Chain of Flames
I’m a firm a believer in the power of free enterprise to move the world forward. All that Soviet respect for science was no match for the American innovation machine once unleashed. The problem comes when the government is inhibiting innovation with overregulation and short-sighted policy. Trade wars and restrictive immigration regulations will limit America’s ability to attract the best and brightest minds, minds needed for this and every forthcoming Sputnik moment.
— Garry Kasparov, Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
The innovation indicators vary depending on who is doing the measuring, and how they are measuring. It’s contextual.
— Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance
In 35 years, 50 percent of our population will live in our cities. Most other countries will be in a similar situation. We need to start preparing now to ensure everyone has the opportunity to live meaningful lives, and our cities are places that will allow that to happen.
— Sir Fazle Hasan Abed
The best... measure of innovation is change in human behavior.
— Stuart Butterfield
In business, complexity both drives innovation and hinders it.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Flexibility is a mental process which results in an action that tests a possible solution.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity
The art of questioning is to ignite innovative thinking.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Observation is a critical activity in the innovation process to understand the context of an issue from a human perspective.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Innovation becomes possible only if people can step out of their comfort zone.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital It: 100 Q&as
Philanthropists should find innovations that release the energies of people. Individuals don't want to be taken care of --they need to be given a chance to fulfill their own potential. (142)
— Jacqueline Novogratz, The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
Outlier” CIOs have better capabilities to connect innovation dots.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital It: 100 Q&as
Healthy debating enforces critical thinking principles - looking at things from the different angles, with increased perspective and less prejudgment.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital It: 100 Q&as
Reword and its an Innovation. Irony
— Talees Rizvi
An innovative mind is never once bitten, twice shy.
— Haresh Sippy
Most of your innovation is hiding in plain sight, you are institutionally blinded by your legacy systems and culture.
— K. Melissa Kennedy, The Innovation Revolution: Discover the Genius Hiding in Plain Sight
Bridging innovation gaps is a strategic imperative for business execution.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Gaps: Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Digital Business
Replacing “progress” with “innovation” skirts the question of whether a novelty is an improvement: the world may not be getting better and better but our devices are getting newer and newer.
— Jill Lepore
Being innovative is more important than any specific innovation. Innovativeness is a way of thinking.
— Pearl  Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador — an adventurer, if you want it translated — with all the curiosity, daring, and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort.
— Sigmund Freud
If Da Vinci had to tweet 5 times a day, we’d still be riding bicycles.
— Natasha Tsakos
We are not here to question the possible,we are here to challenge the impossible
— Natasha Tsakos
The 4 "I" in Simple Ideas: Involve individuals; Inspire crowds; Instil creativity; Innovate humanity !
— Miguel Reynolds Brandao, The Sustainable Organisation - a paradigm for a fairer society: Think about sustainability in an age of technological progress and rising inequality
Only functioning as a whole brain, IT can strike the right balance between stability and agility; creativity and standardization; innovation and risk intelligence.
— Pearl  Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
In essence, innovation is the use of something that is new and unique, and you are able to create its business value.
— Pearl  Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
Silos build the wall in people’s minds and tie the knots in their hearts.
— Pearl  Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
For IT, information management is fundamental, and innovation management is value-added.
— Pearl  Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
T has to continue to evolve the digital dynamic and reinvent itself as an innovative game changer.
— Pearl  Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
IT is the key component in catalyzing digital innovation and building up differentiated business capabilities nowadays.
— Pearl  Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
A hybrid of centralization and decentralization is counter-balance of delivering effective IT capabilities.
— Pearl  Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
The essence of “Being Hybrid” is about balance - to keep things going steadfastly.
— Pearl  Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
Digital IT has a “hybrid” nature. IT management philosophy is transforming from “built to last,” to “wired for change.
— Pearl  Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
The pervasive digitalization or IT consumerism requires the balance of “old experience” and “new way to do things,” the “learning and doing.
— Pearl  Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
Hybrid Thinking is a set of digital minds integrating the multiple thought processes to think bigger, think deeper, think broader, and think critical, etc.
— Pearl  Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
A CIO as “Chief Intrapreneur Officer” has creative, logical, hybrid, and abstract thinking traits.
— Pearl  Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
The digital philosophy is to live as “customers,” when practicing IT management.
— Pearl  Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
The business’s potential depends on how it unleashes its information potential and talent potential.
— Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It
Running IT with boldness doesn’t mean IT goes rogue, it means IT becomes more intelligent,
— Pearl  Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
An outlier does not lack knowledge but has the interdisciplinary understanding to see things differently.
— Pearl  Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
Innovators are at their very heart visionaries who also have determination, dedication, passion and motivation.
— Pearl Zhu, Talent Master: 199+ Questions to See Talent from Different Angles
Agile and DevOps are for harnessing integration, interaction, and innovation.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
Continue to fight until you win
— Sanjeev Sharma, 5 Core Methods of Innovation
The sociological organization is alive, holistic, vibrant, energetic, responsive, fluid, creative and innovation.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Master: Debunk the Myths of Enterprise Digital Maturity
The industrial-based enterprise of the 20th century had run out of gas, and the digital enterprise of the 21st century has the new characteristics and DNA of innovation.
— Pearl  Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
IT continues to grow in importance to organizations, both operationally and as a competitive advantage.
— Pearl  Zhu
Innovation becomes simply “creating value by solving simple or complex problems.
— Pearl  Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
To strengthen the IT-business link, it takes more resource to doing innovation, not just IT innovation, but business innovation.
— Pearl  Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
The function of the bridge is to mind the gap
—  the wonder of the bridge is to create a scene.
A transformation often needs to break down the outdated rules, and a transaction is following the rules.
— Pearl  Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
Digital organizations can become hyper-connected and “super-creative” via dealing with innovation dilemmas collectively.
— Pearl  Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
Develop talent for tomorrow, rather than just hire for yesterday.
— Pearl  Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
As a CIO, you need to understand what the organization’s expectation from IT through innovation lenses.
— Pearl  Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
Coal mines, like a hard life, have seen the best diamonds of innovation, more than any jewel factory.
— Vikrmn, 10 Golden Steps of Life
The world is desperately imperfect. Even if a quarter of the working people were engrossed in new thoughts and inventions and lived off the others, humanity would still gain tremendously thanks to the constant stream of inventions and intellectual work emerging from this horde of people striving upward.
— Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
A tech-savvy Board sets a right tone for shaping the culture of innovation.
— Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
Innovation is too important to leave solely in the hands of the management team without any Board oversight or guidance
— Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
The Board needs to extend its insight and innovation lens via cognitive difference.
— Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
The BoDs play the significant role in both Management Innovation and Innovation Management.
— Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
The purpose of Innovation Management is not to promote innovation, but to manage innovation as a process.
— Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
Digital innovation has a broader spectrum with hybrid nature.
— Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
Innovation is a mindset, and that’s where governance comes in.
— Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
Breaking rules is indeed an important part of creativity. Innovation needs a level of guidance.
— Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
The digital Board will help set the principles to innovate talent management and embrace digital fitness.
— Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
There is no such thing as passive receiving of Tradition. He who receives, the disciple, is always — must always be — the scene of a creation. To receive is to create, to innovate! 'The petrification of acquired knowledge — the freezing of spiritual things — allowing itself to be placed like an inert content in the mind and to be handed on, frozen, from one generation to another, is not real transmission….' Handing on is 'resumption, life, invention and renewal, a mode without which revealed thinking, that is to say, thinking which is authentically thought, is not possible.
— Marc-Alain Ouaknin, The Burnt Book: Reading the Talmud
People who can solve problems in a new way are the innovators.
— Pearl Zhu, Talent Master: 199+ Questions to See Talent from Different Angles
Ingenuity is the ability to solve difficult problems, often in an original and creative way.
— Pearl Zhu, Talent Master: 199+ Questions to See Talent from Different Angles
Intuition matters but, pay more attention to the unconscious bias.
— Pearl Zhu, Talent Master: 199+ Questions to See Talent from Different Angles
In a society caught up in the race for the better, limits on change are experienced as a threat. The commitments to the better at any cost makes the good impossible at all costs. Failure to renew the bill of goods frustrates the expectation of what is possible, while renewal of the bill of goods intensifies the expectations of unattainable progress. What people have and what they are about to get are equally exasperating to them. Accelerating change has become both addictive and intolerable. At this point the balance among stability, change and tradition has been upset; society has lost both its roots in shared memories and its bearings for innovation. Judgement on precedents has lost its value.
— Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality
Be abnormal
—  being normal is too predictable for your brand.
A positive strategy should focus on innovation.
— Sanjiv Anand, Execution Excellence: Making Strategy Work Using the Balanced Scorecard
If you are committed to your highest potential, existence will support you with new energies.
— Amit Ray
Any change holds an opportunity.
— Daniel Egger, Future Value Generation: Do you need to create new Business Logics?
Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back. Sometimes the problem has mutated or disappeared. Often it is still there as strong as it ever was.
— Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite
Bigwig: "I can't think why he didn't convince Threarah."Hazel: "Because Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.
— Richard Adams, Watership Down
We need to act and embrace uncertainty as a pool of opportunity.
— Daniel Egger, Future Value Generation: Do you need to create new Business Logics?
Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration in which the price is literary survival or canonical inclusion.
— Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. – From the book jacket
— Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
Bad business does not revolve around missing crossroads. It revolves around roundabouts.
— Kevin Focke
Exponential Results Requires Exponential Thinking and High Performance Teamworking with Growth Oriented Mindsets.
— Tony Dovale
A high degree of autonomy is what permits innovation, experimentation and risk taking in a bureaucracy. If the slightest mistake can end a career, then no one will ever take risks.
— Francis Fukuyama, Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
Customers don't know what they want until we've shown them.
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
Innovation was a curious thing. It never failed to amaze him. And yet this place confirmed what they’d long known: that truly disruptive innovation rarely came from the expected sources. They’d had so much more luck investing in eccentric B and C students. The rationale was simple: Those heavily invested in the status quo had difficulty thinking outside of it—and were often tainted by it. Especially when success and peer approval beckoned. One did not accidentally graduate from top-tier schools. One strove to get in and to maintain grades once there, and to do that, one usually needed to be a master at conformity. To excel in all the accepted conventions. No, the truly different thinkers often went unnoticed.
— Daniel Suarez, Influx