“Making great things requires both intuition and logic, not a dominance of one over the other.” — Scott Berkun Intuition Copy Share Image
Anyone can criticize or accept praise, but initiating a positive exchange is a hallmark of a difference maker. — Scott Berkun 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
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 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 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
There is a big difference between wanting to say you wrote a book, and actually writing one. Many people think they want… — Scott Berkun 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 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 Grenades 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
“Human beings, who are almost unique [among animals] in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable… — Scott Berkun 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 Copy Share Image
“Perhaps this is why The Boeing Company, one of the largest airplane design and engineering firms in the world, keeps a black… — Scott Berkun Black books Copy Share Image
The temptation many creative people I know have is to strive for popularity. To make, do, and say things that other people… — Scott Berkun Creative Copy Share Image
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