“Nearly every major innovation of the 20th century took place without claims of epiphany.” — Scott Berkun Innovation Copy Share Image
It's rare for people to genuinely try to understand what others are trying to say. — Scott Berkun Educational Copy Share Image
“The love of new ideas is a myth: we prefer ideas only after others have tested them.” — Scott Berkun Love Copy Share Image
Part of the challenge of innovation is coming up with the problem to solve, not just its solution. — Scott Berkun Challenge Copy Share Image
The way you find the answers to your problems will be unique to you. — Scott Berkun Answers Copy Share Image
“Making great things requires both intuition and logic, not a dominance of one over the other.” — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that… — Scott Berkun Advice Copy Share Image
“What good is something that scales well if it sucks? Why is size the ultimate goal or even a goal at all?” — Scott Berkun Goal Copy Share Image
If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection. — Scott Berkun Be good Copy Share Image
“It's often people whose jobs are abstractions that see a company as a zero-sum game where they have to fight and defend… — Scott Berkun Abstractions Copy Share Image
“Defensive management is blind to recognizing how obsessing about preventing bad things also prevents good things from happening or sometimes even prevents… — Scott Berkun Bad thing Copy Share Image
I don’t want to be perfect. I want to be useful, I want to be good, and I want to sound like… — Scott Berkun Be good Copy Share Image
It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different. — Scott Berkun Block Copy Share Image
“Human beings, who are almost unique [among animals] in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable… — Scott Berkun Remarkable Copy Share Image
“We develop ulcers, high blood pressure, headaches, and other physical problems in part because our stress systems aren’t designed to handle the… — Scott Berkun Blood pressure Copy Share Image
Innovative ideas are rarely rejected on their merits; they’re rejected because of how they make people feel. If you forget people’s concerns… — Scott Berkun Concern Copy Share Image
When I'm the speaker, I know that special moment [just before speaking] is the only time I will have the entire audience's… — Scott Berkun Aliens Copy Share Image
“History can’t give attention to what’s been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial… — Scott Berkun Failure Copy Share Image
No one has died from giving a bad presentation. Well, at least one person did, President William Henry Harrison, but he developed… — Scott Berkun Addresses Copy Share Image
“The problem with smart people is that they like to be right and sometimes will defend ideas to the death rather than… — Scott Berkun Bad idea Copy Share Image
“Writers aren’t the most well-adjusted people, and it’s telling that our preferred means of interaction with civilization is throwing paragraph-shaped grenades at… — Scott Berkun Writing Copy Share Image
All great tasks test our motivation. It's easy to court ideas over beers and change the world with napkin sketches, but like… — Scott Berkun Abandon Copy Share Image
People who truly have control over time always have some in their pocket to give to someone in need. A sense of… — Scott Berkun Deeper Copy Share Image
“Einstein said, “ Imagination is more important than knowledge,” but you’d be hard-pressed to find schools or corporations that invest in people… — Scott Berkun Creativity Copy Share Image
“The best lesson from the myths of Newton and Archimedes is to work passionately but to take breaks. Sitting under trees and… — Scott Berkun Business Copy Share Image
“The Greeks were so committed to ideas as supernatural forces that they created an entire group of goddesses (not one but nine)… — Scott Berkun Goddesses Copy Share Image
For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe… — Scott Berkun Answers Copy Share Image
“One way to think about epiphany is to imagine working on a jigsaw puzzle. When you put the last piece into place,… — Scott Berkun Epiphany Copy Share Image
“I believe anyone can teach anyone anything. But I mean this in a specific sense. If you have two dedicated, reasonably intelligent… — Scott Berkun Education Copy Share Image
Big thoughts are fun to romanticize, but it's many small insights coming together that bring big ideas into the world. — Scott Berkun Big idea Copy Share Image
The bottleneck is never code or creativity; it's lack of clarity. — Scott Berkun Clarity Copy Share Image
Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something. — Scott Berkun Education Copy Share Image
Most people doubt online meeting scan work, but they somehow overlook that most in person meetings don't work either. — Scott Berkun Doubt Copy Share Image
“Einstein once said, “If I had 20 days to solve a problem, I would take 19 days to define it,” — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
“Without failure, we forget, in arrogance, that our understanding of things is never as complete as we think it is.” — Scott Berkun Arrogance Copy Share Image
Commit yourself to taking enough risks that you will fail some of the time. If you're not failing, we're not doing something… — Scott Berkun Commit Copy Share Image
History can't give attention to what's been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial… — Scott Berkun Attention Copy Share Image
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