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Steven Johnson Quotes

If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.

Steven Johnson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: June 6, 1968

Topics

Innovation History People Ideas Look

For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.

Joaquin Phoenix

Experience Me Intense Rather Than

When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Writing Story Think Enough Down Try

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

Maynard James Keenan

Music Listening Reading Process More

Women are starting something like twice as many companies as men, but the money is primarily going to companies started by men.

Anita Borg

Women Money Men Starting Going Like

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

Michael Chabon

Love Time Keep Going Fire Me Back

The jazz clubs wind up having only rich tourists - the kids can't come. If they do, then they spend their entire monthly allotments on a 45-minute set.

John Scofield

Wind Rich Jazz Up Come Kids

Democracy is extremely complex; it is extremely concrete. It's about constantly choosing, finding, developing practical options within the common good. Constantly searching for how to express in a practical way the common good, not in some grand way, some grand and absolute way, but in a very comfortable way.

John Ralston Saul

Good Democracy Finding Way Concrete

Everything we talk about is about beating the Packers, the Bears and the Vikings. Obviously there are other teams in the league, but if you can dominate and be on top of your division you are always in the playoff hunt. It's time for us to win that thing.

Steve Mariucci

Time Win You Talk Top Everything

I like being on the road, living in hotels. While I've got a real nice house, I go crazy when I'm there.

Tommy Shaw

Crazy Road House Go Nice Living

I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.

Rodney Dangerfield

Me Surgeon Cigarette General He Met

I've found that if you have big thighs, as I do, long underwear will not ride up.

Ronny Chieng

Ride Long You Will Underwear Big

Nobody is born a dancer.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Born Nobody Dancer