"When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures, you can combine existing concepts into a large number of extraordinary ideas."

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Source : Frans Johansson (2006). “The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us about Innovation”, p.2, Harvard Business Press

Frans Johansson

#Ideas Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Discipline Quotes

“If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”
“Grief, I swear to God, doesn't live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want to do is cut off my nose so I can't smell her, hack my fingers off at the joint.”
“Simple and more frequent dates allow both men and women to â€˜shop aroundâ€™ in a way that allows extensive evaluation of the prospects. The old-fashioned date was a wonderful way to get acquainted with a member of the opposite sex. It encouraged conversation. It allowed you to see how you treat others and how you are treated in a one-on-one situation. It gave opportunities to learn how to initiate and sustain a mature relationship. None of that happens in hanging out”
“I heard those words that every woman fears and never wants to hear, You have breast cancer,”
“Listen well, and you will be pronounced a "brilliant" conversationalist!”
“I see what those people are doing with computers and it's just the new way of doing things and I don't look down on them for it, it's kind of funny that there are a lot of people - and I don't even care, this isn't me being like "well I do this" - but there are definitely people who are like: "Yeah I played all that."”
“Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.”

Source : Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.216, Oxford University Press, USA
“I wasn’t a good student, and even now I never say that I am better than anybody, but I know I love Jiu Jitsu more than anybody. I love the energy and that it gets deeper the more you study.”

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