Top 28 Kevin Ashton Quotes
#1. A creative organization does not resent conflicts over concepts; it resolves them.
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#2. Intellectually secure people do not need to show anyone how smart they are. They are empirical and seek truth. Intellectually insecure people need to show everyone how smart they are. They are egotistical and seek triumph.
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#3. If your idea succeeds, everybody says you're persistent. If it doesn't succeed, you're stubborn.
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#4. Creating is to humans as flying is to birds. It is our nature, our spirit.
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#5. Saying no", argues the author Kevin Ashton, "has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread from which we weave our creations. The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know.
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#6. Minds do not leap. Observation, evaluation, and iteration, not sudden shifts of perception, solve problems and lead us to creation.
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#7. When you bring something truly new to the world, brace. Having an impact is not usually a pleasant experience. Sometimes the hardest part of creating is not having an idea but saving an idea, ideally while also saving yourself.
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#8. There are few overnight successes and many up-all-night successes.
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#9. You couldn't sit in a room and wait for your muse to come and tickle you. Monday morning came, there was a dress rehearsal Thursday, you had to get that thing written. And it was grueling, but you learned to write.
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#12. A species that survives by creating must not limit who can create. More creators means more creations. Equality brings justice to some and wealth to all.
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#14. We are all social chameleons, adjusting our skin to blend in with, or sometimes stand out from, whatever crowd we happen to be in.
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#15. But Sales + Customers = Nothing Broken is a formula for corporate cyanide.
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#16. The art of new, and perhaps the art of happiness, is not absolute victory for either new or old but balance between them. Birds do not defy gravity or let it bind them to the ground. They use it to fly.
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#17. intrinsic motivation is the only motivation. Inspirational lightning bolts are external - they come from without and are beyond our control.
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#18. Having ideas is not the same thing as being creative. Creation is execution, not inspiration.
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#19. Make an enemy of certainty and befriend doubt. When you can change your mind, you can change anything.
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#20. The secret of Steve was that he was never satisfied. He devoted his life to asking, "Why doesn't it work?" and "What should I change to make it work?
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#21. His rap was fluid, on time, and in tune. He ad-libbed - or "freestyled" - using a range of poetic tricks, from rhyme and repetition to assonance and alliteration:
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#22. how to achieve a reasonable synthesis between the forces that drive a person to seek individual expression and those that drive him to comply with the wishes of others.
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#23. Saying "no" has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined ...
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#24. they realized that all the published data was wrong - "little better than guesswork" - they had also discovered what knowledge was needed to design wings that would fly.
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#25. Creating is an ordinary act, creation its extraordinary outcome.
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#26. societies revere creation in public and then reject it in private, creators are surprised and wonder what they did wrong.
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#27. But all the good outcomes make the truth obvious: the more we create, the less we destroy.
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#28. The most creative organizations prioritize rituals of doing; the least creative organizations prioritize rituals of saying,
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