Rollo May Quotes

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

Rollo May

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• I believe that entrepreneurs play an unmatched role and the accelerating pace of innovation is transforming the face of global challenges. You must think about the solution differently when you're trying to impact 1 billion people rather than affecting 1 million people.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trying

• Be original; don't be scared of being bold!

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Bold
  • Scared
  • Original

• I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Life
  • True
  • Feeling

• America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Work
  • America
  • Education

• So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Style
  • Innovation
  • Year

• We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Heart
  • America
  • Black

• But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Kind
  • Creating
  • WIld

• Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • People
  • Innovation
  • Software

• Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Women
  • Success
  • Design

• Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Future
  • House

• There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Revolution
  • Green
  • Creating

• People are sources not just of consumption but of innovation.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Innovation
  • Sources

• I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many models to talk about innovation, there are so many typologies of innovation, and you have to find a good innovation metric that truly captures the innovation performance of a company.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Good
  • Discipline
  • Innovation

• Let me end my talk by abusing slightly my status as an official representative of the Federal Reserve System. I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression. You're right, we did it. We're very sorry. But thanks to you, we won't do it again.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Great
  • Sorry
  • Depression

• Substandard housing was a blow to your psychological health, not only because things like dampness, mold, and overcrowding could bring about depression but also because of what living in awful conditions told you about yourself.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Health
  • Depression
  • Blow

• My parents were both born and raised in the Depression. They instilled great values about integrity and the importance of hard work, and I've taken that with me to every job.

  

  Mary Barra
  • Work
  • Great
  • Job

• The history of innovation is the story of ideas that seemed dumb at the time.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Time
  • History
  • Innovation

• I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.

  

  Kevin J. Anderson
  • Up
  • Space
  • Travel

• Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Science
  • Culture
  • Technology

• Microsoft has some assets like Office that have stayed strong and there's so much room for innovation in those.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Innovation
  • Office
  • Microsoft

• The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the individual author but also the self, as it were, of the race.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Writing
  • Individual
  • Creating

• Ambition without knowledge is like a boat on dry land -movie - Karate kid"What is the calculus of innovation?" "The calculus of innovation is really quite simple: knowledge drives innovation, innovation drives productivity, productivity drives our economic growth."

  

  William R. Brody
  • Kids
  • Simple
  • Growth

• Student loans, Social Security, and Medicare make a difference in the lives of working families every day, and the conversation that should be taking place is how we can save these programs, not weaken them.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Day
  • Make A Difference

• If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

  

  Rollo May
  • Innovation
  • Depression
  • Creating