Ideo Quotes

#1. New opportunities for innovation open up when you start the creative problem-solving process with empathy toward your target audience. TOM KELLEY, IDEO Why

Marc Goodman

#2. The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In the long run, innovation is cheap. Mediocrity is expensive - and autonomy can be the antidote. TOM KELLEY General Manager, IDEO

Daniel H. Pink

#3. At IDEO we have dedicated rooms for our brainstorming sessions, and the rules are literally written on the walls: Defer judgment. Encourage wild ideas. Stay focused on the topic. The most important of them, I would argue, is "Build on the ideas of others.

Tim Brown

#4. Fail faster. Succeed sooner." - David Kelley, founder IDEO

Tom Peters

#5. The secret of grace is that it can be all right at the center even when it is all wrong on the edges.

Lewis B. Smedes

#6. Character issues such as drug abuse are not exclusive to Detroit Public Schools. My reference to substance abuse, not intended to focus on any particular school district, was simply used to illustrate this position.

Kwame Kilpatrick

#7. In those long-ago days I saw a daughter with a disability. Now I see a beautiful, engaging person with a different ability, one that has blessed her with extra gifts and special perceptions.

Lee Woodruff

#8. The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor. If you know any one who is gay, beguiling and amusing, you will, if you are wise, do everything you can to make him prefer your house and your table to any other; for where he is, the successful party is also.

Emily Post

#9. Sometimes life sends us lessons in ridiculous packaging.

Dar Williams

#10. Sometimes, it is not about the skillset or talent alone but behavior and attitude is part of the ladder moing to the next steps

Bel

#11. Great performers require a measure of confidence that would strike many as absurd, unfounded, and downright irrational. They believe in themselves utterly, without question, even when everyone else is questioning how good (or sane) they are.

John Eliot

#12. Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.

Pliny The Elder

#13. I was happy about different things. I was happy because someday I'd be walking across this bridge looking at this city, owning some piece of it, being valuable here.

Ned Vizzini

#14. The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.

Al Pacino

#15. I am a traditional man. I'm a product of a traditional man. He sacrificed everything for his family.

Andy Garcia