Top 100 Breakthrough Quotes
#1. The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.
Clayton Christensen
#2. The moment you try working on what appears difficult to you, you will start noticing it's loopholes that you can breakthrough.
Israelmore Ayivor
#3. When commercializing disruptive technologies, they found or developed new markets that valued the attributes of the disruptive products, rather than search for a technological breakthrough so that the disruptive product could compete as a sustaining technology in mainstream markets.
Clayton M Christensen
#4. Breakthrough focused gospel leads to lies and deception
Sunday Adelaja
#5. Prayer is the burden of revival; repentance is the breakthrough of revival; evangelism is the blessing of revival; holiness is the bounty of revival.
Steve Camp
#6. As a Christian, when your trial is getting hotter, you are getting closer to your breakthrough! Keep pressing!
T. B. Joshua
#7. I do enjoy manga but would not consider myself a 'super-fan,' only really connecting with certain works such as 'Lone Wolf and Cub,' or 'Tekkon Kinkreet,' the more breakthrough works, and 'Akira,' to me, is the daddy of them all.
Gerard Way
#8. The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.
Mike Fitzpatrick
#9. Everybody is standing, but you must stand out.
Everybody is breaking grounds; but you must breakthrough!
Everybody scratching it; but you must scratch it hard!
Everybody is going, but you must keep going extra miles!
Dare to be exceptionally excellent and why not?
Israelmore Ayivor
#10. Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's.
Mort Kondracke
#11. I think if someone else other than Reagan, someone less of a hardliner, had been in power then the breakthrough in ending the Cold War would not have happened.
Eduard Shevardnadze
#12. Qatar is giving 2.8% of our GDP to research. This is something again that is a breakthrough, as nobody was even thinking of research as a tool or component for advancement in this part of the world.
Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned
#13. I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way.
Jonathan Lethem
#14. For most western executives, innovation is about breakthrough technology or innovation. If it's not breakthrough, it's not interesting, and it's all about technology and products.
John Hagel III
#15. The more you hardwire a company on total quality management, the more it is going to hurt breakthrough innovation,
Vijay Govindarajan
#16. I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
Natalie Dormer
#17. I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.
Thomas Friedman
#18. I took a long view in order to not destroy the core Galvin-defined principles imbued in Motorola, such as constant respect for people, its instincts for breakthrough innovation, and continuous renewal in thinking and process rigor.
Christopher Galvin
#19. All people are standing; you got to standout! All people are breaking grounds; you got to breakthrough grounds! Don't settle for less; rise up and stand tall in what you do!
Israelmore Ayivor
#20. Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.
Cherrie Moraga
#21. Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.
Eric Ries
#22. The actual breakthrough in the privacy of the studio, when one dares to apply paint in a new manner, is a solitary thrill, dependent upon no one else.
Mary Carroll Nelson
#23. Breakthrough Management Group International (BMGI) India is the strong Global Consulting firm mainly focuses to provide consultant services establish a profitable business with the challenging success.
Breakthrough Management Group International
#24. To have a breakthrough, you must consciously connect with the invisible forces that are everywhere around you, urging you to go beyond your old conditioning.
Deepak Chopra
#25. Sometimes when you are the closest to your breakthrough the pressure is the greatest. You have come too far to give up now!
Joyce Meyer
#26. If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America's system of higher education must remain the world's leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.
Alan Greenspan
#27. the breakthrough researcher first discovers the fundamental causal mechanism behind the phenomena of success. This allows those who are looking for "an answer" to get beyond the wings-and-feathers mind-set of copying the attributes of successful companies.
Clayton M Christensen
#28. What they say about a breakthrough is completely an illusion. They are sending their warplanes to fly very low in order to have vibrations on these sacred places.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#29. As I slowly managed to take what I had learned into a transition from contestant to announcer and warm-up, I first had to prove myself on pilots. And as you know, many pilots are taped for each show that is lucky enough to breakthrough to being a series.
Randy West
#30. When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.
Joyce Meyer
#31. The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of the same ingenuity, then things will only become formalized and get stuck in a cul-de-sac; whereby breakthrough and progress will be almost impossible.
Bruce Lee
#32. Many a fine SF story uses science or technology merely as backdrop. Many a fine SF story presumes a technological breakthrough and explores its implications without attempting to predict how the thing might actual work.
Edward M. Lerner
#33. Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been because of Prayer
John C. Maxwell
#34. The future will bring a breakthrough only to those who today have not only made a decision but who also have begun to instill within themselves certain values and principles.
Sunday Adelaja
#35. Your test is to forgive those who have hurt you, when you pass your test you will see your breakthrough
Jeanette Coron
#36. My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.
Peter Straub
#37. And [we hope to sell] the clean fuels to other airlines. I mean, the exciting thing about the breakthrough with clean fuels for the airline industry is there's only 1,700 pumps in the world that fill up the airlines.
Richard Branson
#38. To have a major breakthrough in policy, you have to be able to stop and think.
Newt Gingrich
#39. by breakthrough, broken into three broad stages: disciplined people, disciplined thought, and disciplined
James C. Collins
#40. Among the many international consequences of Barack Obama's stunning victory in the United States is worldwide introspection about whether such a breakthrough could happen elsewhere. Could a person of color win power in other white-majority countries?
Shashi Tharoor
#42. Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
Stephen Covey
#43. I am impressed with the innovation in the wireless marketplace. The Blackberry, the iPhone, the Pre, and other smart devices are breakthrough technologies that have helped revolutionize the wireless space.
Julius Genachowski
#44. You have to go through the darkness to truly know the light. This may sound like a cliche, but it's true nonetheless. Often the greatest doubts occur just before a breakthrough.
Surya Das
#45. When there's ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period when the consensus was 'well, that's nonsense!' so what that means is that a true creative researcher has to have confidence in nonsense.
Burt Rutan
#46. I work from the body - I try to develop a language of the body. I've invented a term I call "corporeal writing" around that idea. I love teaching and collaborating around this idea, because no new breakthrough in literature ever happened because everyone was doing what was already there.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#47. Breakthrough is guaranteed, if there is enough light.
Sunday Adelaja
#48. I've done a number of projects where people go, 'This is your breakthrough role,' so I've stopped thinking that.
Matthew Rhys
#49. There's only one problem with Osborn's breakthrough idea: group brainstorming doesn't actually work
Susan Cain
#50. The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.
Nicholas Negroponte
#51. After a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999.
Barack Obama
#52. Writing is my way of diving deep into an issue. My approach is to watch, read and listen - sometimes for years - in order to grasp the dynamics, resistance and patterns of thought that repeat and impede progress and breakthrough.
Paul Hawken
#53. In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.
Mary J. Blige
#54. For example, a breakthrough in better batteries could supplant hydrogen. Better solar cells could replace or win out in this race to the fuel of the future. Those, I see, as the three big competitors: hydrogen, solar cells and then better batteries.
Bob Inglis
#55. What characterizes a really great thinker is that they misrecognize the basic dimension of their own breakthrough.
Slavoj Zizek
#56. I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.
Marissa Mayer
#57. In my experience, in this industry, the things that have been breakthrough have all been about connecting human beings to each other, communicating with each other.
Renee James
#58. Sometimes things will not go as planned, but don't lose hope. Stay focused on whatever you are trying to accomplish. There will be a breakthrough soon. Understand that all things take time. You may not be there yet, but you're on the right path towards success.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#59. Too many of you are doing great stuff in small ponds, it's time for a stir-up, break limits, break boundaries, breakthrough. Go, make it happen!
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#60. I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.
Joyce Meyer
#61. 'Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough.
Eric Brown
#62. All I need is the breakthrough. The joint-venture for my clothing. Same as Stella McCartney has ...
Kanye West
#63. Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they're hallucinating
Ben Horowitz
#64. Sometimes you have to have a breakdown before you have a breakthrough!
Evinda Lepins
#65. It's useless to wait-for a breakthrough, for the revolution, the nuclear apocalypse or a social movement. To go on waiting is madness. The catastrophe is not coming, it is here. We are already situated within the collapse of a civilization. It is within this reality that we must choose sides.
The Invisible Committee
#66. As with instant replay, NFL Films' use of slow motion, camera angles and the narration of Facenda was not just a technical breakthrough but a conceptual breakthrough.
Tony Verna
#67. The average author hawks their books at many events. They are vigilant promoters, waiting for a breakthrough. They do this, or else watch their novel wither away.
Michael J. Kannengieser
#68. There is no breakthrough without breakage"--Love's Body
Norman O. Brown
#69. We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.
Dane Cook
#70. Nothing is as satisfying as those moments of breakthrough when you discover something about yourself and the universe that adds another piece to the jigsaw puzzle. The joy of discovery is delicious.
Susan Jeffers
#71. Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.
Peter Jackson
#72. Breakthrough happened around me when breakup happened within me.
Jack W. Hayford
#73. What makes it difficult for people trying to follow a dream is that the whole time you feel like you're slamming your head against the wall. So it's nice to make a breakthrough and not kind of lying there with your head bleeding.
Lewis Black
#74. The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.
Penn Jillette
#75. 'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books, so it was sort of an obvious choice for being the first book to be translated into English.
Natsuo Kirino
#76. Utter frustration often precedes the breakthrough so stick with it and have faith in your journey.
Sam Owen
#77. The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do.
Brian Tracy
#78. Sometimes God uses people to test you. Be patient with people because you never know how God can use them to bring you your breakthrough.
Jeanette Coron
#79. The consensus we arrived with States for amending the Constitution to implement GST is a major breakthrough. This alone has the potential to make India competitive and attractive for investment.
Narendra Modi
#80. most breakthrough products result from a long cycle of hit-and-miss prototypes, the steady accumulation of features, and a timely synthesis of existing technologies.
Brent Schlender
#81. The greatest breakthrough's happens in the most difficult of times. Expect, believe and receive it.
Jeanette Coron
#82. Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it's a relay race.
Nguyen Quyen
#83. Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.
Terence McKenna
#84. Understand that the enemy always fights the hardest when he knows you are closest to your breakthrough. He'd leave you alone if he thought you were going to live in mediocrity. If you keep pressing on toward your promise, through faith and patience, you will get there.
Joel Osteen
#86. Scarlett Johansson has a smile she tries to suppress in every movie she makes. She's been trying to keep a straight face since she appeared with Bill Murray 11 years ago in her breakthrough, 'Lost in Translation.'
Steve Erickson
#87. A breakthrough occurs when you recognize, you are more energy than matter
Caroline Myss
#88. I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.
Steve Martin
#89. The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.
Steve Jobs
#90. Of all the early breakthrough rock and roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, and one of its greatest performers.
Cub Koda
#91. There is no breakthrough without a breakdown.
Tony Robbins
#92. But I don't want to leave until I see the breakthrough.
Stephen Lewis
#93. The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.
Jean Cocteau
#94. If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.
[Blueprint for a Breakthrough (2013)]
Shane Koyczan
#95. It's funny, everywhere I go some people ask me whether it's going to be a Latino breakthrough, some people ask me whether it's going to be a female breakthrough, and then I'm reminded that five years ago we didn't even know Barack Obama's name.
Gwen Ifill
#96. Your breakdown is just a divine set-up for your breakout, which leads to an irrevocable breakthrough.
Hope D. Blackwell
#97. The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.
Faith Hill
#98. To really achieve anything, you have to be able to tolerate and enjoy risk. It has to become a challenge to look forward to. In all fields, to make exceptional discoveries you need risk - you're just never going to have a breakthrough without it.
Steven Kotler
#99. The messages emphasizing miracles and breakthrough must be replaced if our nation must move forward.
Sunday Adelaja
#100. We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough ... we're only paid for breakthroughs.
Bill Gates
