9 Quotes & Sayings By Reif Larsen

Reif Larsen is a leading international expert on creativity, innovation, and leadership. He is the author of four books on visioning, innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity and strategy. He is also an advisor to large corporations around the world on innovation and leadership development. Reif is a regular keynote speaker at conferences, universities and forums around the world including Harvard Business School, Stanford University, MIT Sloan School of Management, Kellogg School of Management, London Business School; Aalborg University (Denmark), University of Copenhagen (Denmark), CECAM (France) and many others.

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One cannot spend one's entire life running into bathrooms when danger calls! Reif Larsen
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This was the curse of the voracious reader, she realized. Real life never quite measured up to the heightened and precise contours of her literary worlds. A real war was never as true as a fictive one. Reif Larsen
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Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library. Reif Larsen
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A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected. Reif Larsen
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Adults were pack rats of old, useless emotions. Reif Larsen
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Instead of falling to the ground like a heavy doll, as Kermin had seen the prisoners do at the Chetnik executions, his mother shrank into herself, a reverse blossoming, coming to rest in a sitting position, like a ruminative Buddha Reif Larsen
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I'm a practicing Zen Buddhist and I'm influenced by my readings in that tradition, such as the notion that everyone is born a perfect being and we spend most of our lives with a clouded vision trying to realize our perfection, " he says. At critical moments in the book, T.S. registers his inkling of this realization. When he makes his maps, it feels like taking down dictation from the universe. Reif Larsen
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A novel is a tricky thing to map. Reif Larsen