Words of Wisdom from 3 Innovators

July 5, 2013 By IdeaConnection

Leonardo_da_Vinci_-_Self-Portrait_-_WGA12798Enjoy this short collection of quotes from three innovators who need no introduction and knew a thing or two about ideas, originality, creativity and breaking barriers.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”

“Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.”

“There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.”

“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.”

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Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

 

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Thomas Edison (1847-1931)

“I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent….”

“A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another….”


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