William Pollard famous quotes

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.
-- William Pollard

#Creativity #Opportunity #Innovation

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
-- William Pollard

#Thinking #Hands #Yesterday

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.
-- William Pollard

#People #Decision #Benefits

To change is difficult. Not to change is fatal.
-- William Pollard

#Difficult

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement
-- William Pollard

#Creativity #Innovation #Inevitable Change

It is not always what we know or analyzed before we make a decision that makes it a great decision. It is what we do after we make the decision to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.
-- William Pollard

#Decision #Decision Making #Good Decision

Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.
-- William Pollard

#Ideas #New Ideas

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.
-- William Pollard

#People #Perfection #Excellence

In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.
-- William Pollard

#Mistake #Focus #Kitchen

Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.

In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn or to show the spirit of patience, forbearance, and longsuffering. If you are to practice these things, it must be now.

I met with Martha and Sharon to see if there are any opportunities in syndication. My vision says her customers and fans are still loyal to her. I don't think the Martha Stewart brand loyalty has changed.

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

There are a lot of things not going well for Microsoft right now - Microsoft reorganization appears to be rearranging the chairs on the Titanic.

An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit, a capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship, we are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.