"People who should be the first to recognize the value of an innovation are often the last..."

-- Douglas Crockford

#People Quotes #Innovation Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies.”
“It isnâ€™t what you say that counts, itâ€™s what you donâ€™t say”
“I do care a great deal about the environment but my real work and my greatest challenge is trying to overcome deceits that end up jeopardizing public health and safety.”
“These are the saddest of possible words, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Trio of Bear Cubs fleeter than birds, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making a Giant hit into a double, Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. This brief poem, immortalized the Chicago Cubs' double-play combination: Shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance.”
“I knew how to read a contract by 10 years old, but I didn't know what it meant for somebody to come in and tell me they loved me and kiss me goodnight. That's a problem.”

Source : "Actor Corey Feldman Says Pedophilia No. 1 Problem for Child Stars, Contributed to Demise of Corey Haim" by Steven Baker and David Wright, abcnews.go.com. August 10, 2011.
“If you don't give inspiration an opportunity, it will never arrive.”
“Weâ€™re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of events. We do it automatically. We invent memories. Without thinking. If we tell ourselves something happened often enough we start to believe it, and then we can actually remember it.”
“This generation, our generation of people who benefited, must always be the pioneers who look to younger people and say mediocrity is not accommodated in what we do.”

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