Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Greenspan

The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.

David Suzuki

Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.

Edith Widder

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

Bertrand Russell

All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.

Carlos Castaneda

Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.

Agnes Repplier

Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.

Bing Gordon

Genius may be born, but innovation can be learned.

Arthur Erickson

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.

Todd Simmons

Through open source software, you can dramatically speed up the level of innovation.

Edith Wharton

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

Charles Dudley Warner

Isolation breeds conceit.

Charles de Gaulle

In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?

Charles Baudelaire

Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.

Arthur Brisbane

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

bell hooks

I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison.

Baltasar Gracian

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

Brennan Manning

Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others.

Charles Phillips

Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality.

David Briggs

There are some gradual signs that the worst is over for this particular downdraft, ... We're optimistic that we can get a little turnaround by the end of the week. But it's hard to point to any one real catalyst that can turn things around.

Jim Volk

Unless there's some catalyst for the shorts to start scampering there's no reason for markets to go higher.

Jim Volk

We're just in a holding pattern. I don't see any catalyst on the scene at this point to get stocks going.

Christopher Johnson

We're seeing the idea that technology is starting to get back in the driver's seat. And tech is a catalyst that you need for the market to rally.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Yes, education is the catalyst that will hone and sharpen our talents, skills, and abilities and cause them to blossom.

Francois Trahan

Short of a significant decline in oil prices, we do not foresee a likely catalyst that would spur the market significantly higher at this time. The equity market will likely remain in a transition phase, which could see the strong equity market uptrend of 2003 evolve into a slight downtrend in early 2005.

Susan Walvius

She may be the fastest guard in the country. She certainly was the catalyst for her team.

Art Hogan

We've sort of run into resistance, we need a significant catalyst to move us further and it's just not there.

Elizabeth Dole

My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the 'glass ceiling' to see who is on the other side, and to serve as a catalyst for change . . . .