Quotes On Breakthrough Ideas

#1. The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.

Nicholas Negroponte

#2. Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they're hallucinating

Ben Horowitz

#3. While leaders spend considerable time and effort trying to envision markets and pushing out innovation, empathy can often generate simple, yet breakthrough ideas.

John Gerzema

#4. Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.

Marc Andreessen

#5. The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#6. Like every big idea, Birdseye's breakthrough was not a single insight, but a network of other ideas, packaged together in a new configuration. What made Birdseye's idea so powerful was not simply his individual genius, but the diversity of places and forms of expertise that he brought together.

Steven Johnson

#7. In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize the species.

E. O. Wilson

#8. My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50 ... I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.

Edvard Munch

#9. You are cordially invited to go fuck yourself.

A.E. Samaan

#10. 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

#11. I do not believe the greatest threat to our future is from bombs or guided missiles. I don't think our civilization will die that way. I think it will die when we no longer care when the spiritual forces that make us wish to be right and noble die in our hearts.

Laurence McKinley Gould

#12. I believe it is possible that we can turn today's breakdown into a planetary breakthrough on one condition. We can do it if we can break free of a set of dominant but misleading ideas that are taking us down.

Frances Moore Lappe

#13. All great inventions emerge from a long sequence of small sparks; the first idea often isn't all that good, but thanks to collaboration it later sparks another idea, or it's reinterpreted in an unexpected way. Collaboration brings small sparks together to generate breakthrough innovation.

Scott Belsky

#14. Someone who is said to have a big ego is thought to be full of themselves, to lack the ability to listen, to always rush to be at the top of the tree and to think their own ideas are the best.

Gyalwa Dokhampa

#15. The day before something is a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea.

Peter Diamandis

#16. My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.

Bret Easton Ellis

#17. Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People's needs change, so you must aim well ahead of the target to hit it.

Ray Kurzweil

#18. We have a natural tendency to romanticize breakthrough innovations, imagining momentous ideas transcending their surroundings, a gifted mind somehow seeing over the detritus of old ideas and ossified tradition. But ideas are works of bricolage; they're built out of that detritus.

Steven Johnson

#19. Breakthroughs arise when someone can combine many ideas together. Think broadly, not deeply.

Joshua Krook

#20. The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

Bill Gates

#21. The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world.

Annie Dillard

#22. The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt.

Peter Diamandis

#23. You have to let go of what is holding you back.

Celso Cukierkorn

#24. Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary.

Rupert Murdoch

#25. Physical contact is a human necessity.

David Byrne

#26. When people are perfectly polite, it usually means they don't really care. A little awkwardness is more sincere.

Ken Follett