Quotes by Max McKeown

“Nowists get off on getting on, so they run when they could walk, jump when they could sit and dance when they could sit at the edge. They regret inaction, so simply act.”

“All we've got is Now. Life, composed of a billion moments, from our first to our last thoughts.”

“If you don't start, you're finished.”

“Innovation is deviance which means that the rebellious personality is a natural resource for practical creativity. As an innovator, you need to reject the old to establish a new, better, status quo...”

“The psychology of individual creativity is about at least three different things. First, creativity is about thinking differently. Second, creativity is about feeling differently. Third, creativity...”

“As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.”

“Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.”

“Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist - and finding a solution - or seeing what does not yet exist - and finding an opportunity.”

“Before innovation - or practical creativity - there is insight. You must see the world differently.”

“Innovation is about practical creativity - it's about making new ideas useful...”

“Plug into the anti-obvious power of the rebel. Or get those opposing minds to plug into your purpose, to solve your problem, to reimagine your process.”

“The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity.”

“If traditional doesn't work, then traditions won't do.”

“Problem-insight precedes solution insight. Someone has to recognise a problem before they start to solve the problem...”

“If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.”

“We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage...”

“Strategy was first used in Athens (508 BC) to describe the art of leadership used by the ten generals on the war council. Some argue for the more creative, human side, while others argue for the mo...”

“Nowists are more likely to experience joy because they embrace the uncertainty of existence. They are switched on by the uncertain stuff of human life and come alive when faced with life at its mos...”

“Only the right pain gets the right gain.”

“The best things happen to those who don't wait.”