I'm not part of any organization that has initials.

Creativity is the generation and initial development of new, useful ideas. Innovation is the successful implementation of those ideas in an organization. Thus, no…

— Teresa Amabile

When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and that's fine.…

— Pam Houston

Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what…

— Terry Eagleton

One of the things all entrepreneurs struggle with is where their efforts will have the highest impact. Unfortunately, too many of us continue to…

— Lewis Schiff

Many companies forget what it means to make great products. After initial success, sales and marketing people take over and the product people eventually…

— Steve Jobs

It was as if nothing quite erased the initial shock of being kissed by someone who was not hers, a kiss that was stolen,…

— Suki Kim

After initial needs are met—enough food, shelter, comfort—there is no correlation between money and happiness. That's a difficult thing for people to believe.

— Geneen Roth

Non-participation gives us hardening of the attitude. Life goes on, and if we do not participate, life still goes on. If a negative attitude…

— Marsha Petrie Sue

As our initial click fraud research study showed last year, there is an obvious problem in the online advertising world. The challenge is that…

— Flint McGlaughlin

Theres that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously.

— Lisa Guerrero

This bill would allow an employee to bring a claim against an employer decades after the alleged initial act of discrimination occurred. Trial lawyers,…

— Buck McKeon

I know that some of the folks in the press are uptight about this [moving the press corps out of the West Wing ],…

— Reince Priebus

. . when the initial excitement of playing starts to evaporate, good habits are needed to sustain the learning process.

— Howard Snell

Goals not only help you develop initial motivation by making your dreams obtainable, but they also help you continue to be motivated and that…

— John C. Maxwell

I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial…

— Ted Martinez