Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or… — Steven Sinofsky Copy Share Image
A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight. — Steven Sinofsky Copy Share Image
Eviction often leads to a disruption in critical services like Medicaid and nutrition assistance when families need them most. — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
Our teachers are incredibly hardworking and dedicated professionals. Having to deal with unruly pupils and disruption on a daily basis adds to… — Gavin Williamson Copy Share Image
“A new-market disruption is an innovation that enables a larger population of people who previously lacked the money or skill now to… — Clayton M. Christensen Copy Share Image
...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
“St. Augustine said, "The very pleasures of human life men acquire by difficulties." There are times when the entire arrangement of our… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Disruption of our mental construct can be deeply disorienting. Still, it may also provide an opportunity for growth and reevaluation, prompting us… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
This mandate that I seek is about continuity and sustainability against disruption and stagnation, about moving forward versus regressing. We have to… — Najib Razak Copy Share Image
“Systemic disruption requires us to accept that there may be no measurable data to fully substantiate our understanding of those disruptions. Imaging… — Roger Spitz Copy Share Image
The people of the Third World need our sympathetic understanding and, much more than that, they need our help. We can provide… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[Buckminster] Fuller was an independent operator coming up with these madcap ways of combining things with absolutely no strings attached and the… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Once we had become locked in on a schedule, he (Coach Denny Green) often created a disruption (artificial adversity) to that schedule… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
Amid all the job losses of the Great Recession, there is one category of worker that the economic disruption has been good… — Daniel Lyons Copy Share Image
“True innovation and disruption happens outside of the accepted playing field, outside of the court, outside of the battleground. Disrupruption breaches the… — Tony Curl Copy Share Image
“Whenever victory gets close, the crowd throws a disruption party. I don’t RSVP. Beast mode eats chaos for breakfast. Step out and… — Don Santo Copy Share Image
'Disruption' is, at its core, a really powerful idea. Everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now. It's the same… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My overall message for labor members is... that we understand that the benefits of trade are clear, but the disruption and the… — Alexis Herman Copy Share Image
The first step in community organization is community disorganization. The disruption of the present organization is the first step toward community organization.… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
“Vast organisations produce a sense of impotence in the individual, leading to a decay of effort. The danger can be averted if… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me to do… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
It's the idea held by generations of citizens who believed that America is a constant work in progress; who believed that loving… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The greenest fuels are the ones that contain the most energy per pound of material that must be mined, trucked, pumped, piped,… — Peter W. Huber Copy Share Image
Civilization is in no immediate danger of running out of energy or even just out of oil. But we are running out… — Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran Copy Share Image
In my opinion, one of the most exciting potentials of the blockchain relate to creating new business models, whether in public or… — William Mougayar Copy Share Image
When we walk slowly, the world can fully appear. Not only are the creatures not frightened away by our haste or aggression,… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
I think that sometimes people talk about disruption, and I've seen tons of startups come in as disruptors and then disappear. And… — Dan Schulman Copy Share Image
A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this… — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
When Paul [Greengrass] was writing, he'd send me story ideas that he had. He was particularly interested in social movements and revolutions… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
The structural changes of globalization and automation that has created concentrated wealth among some people who have had the right skills and… — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
More and more major industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
I often had to pass over photographs because in a mass of animals invariably one would be wandering in the wrong direction,… — Art Wolfe Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump] is talking a lot about redoing trade and that's the area that is getting globalists nervous. Number one, they want… — Maria Bartiromo Copy Share Image
No magic bullet, not even the Internet, can save us from population explosion, deforestation, climate disruption, poison by pollution, and wholesale extinction… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
![“[Buckminster] Fuller was an independent operator coming up with these madcap ways of combining things with absolutely no strings attached and the fact that world changing now is happening within the corporation by and large, and that disruption is ironically what corporations do.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee0/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_buckminster-fuller-was-an-independent-op_35124.jpg)
![“The greenest fuels are the ones that contain the most energy per pound of material that must be mined, trucked, pumped, piped, and burnt. [In contrast], extracting comparable amounts of energy from the surface would entail truly monstrous environmental disruption… The greenest possible strategy is…” quote by Peter W. Huber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50d/peter-w-huber-75111_amount_the-greenest-fuels-are-the-ones-that-con_1577880.jpg)
![“When Paul [Greengrass] was writing, he'd send me story ideas that he had. He was particularly interested in social movements and revolutions that had been happening all over the world, and how computers and the internet had helped those movements. He encouraged me to read a book about Anonymous…” quote by Julia Stiles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/478/julia-stiles-10034_book_when-paul-greengrass-was-writing-he-d-se_2905762.jpg)
![“[Donald Trump] is talking a lot about redoing trade and that's the area that is getting globalists nervous. Number one, they want certainty. They do not want to see a disruption in trade. He's promising to rip up NAFTA, redo NAFTA. He's not going to do the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the TPP trade…” quote by Maria Bartiromo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/adf/maria-bartiromo-12020_areas_donald-trump-is-talking-a-lot-about-redo_2896447.jpg)
