Tyler Joseph Quotes

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

If you start shaping everything you do trying to be in step with whatever is going on in the world, you're often out of step by the time people hear it. It's a bit like fashion.

I don't go looking for new fads.

He who follows another will never overtake him

If everyone thinks you have a good idea, you´re too late

To move with the times is, of course, to go where all times go.

Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.

Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.

The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his predecessor, the refuse of contempt, or the omissions of negligence.

It's never too late to get a new design, and if you wanna compete you gotta visualize.

It keeps me moving when I see people doing stuff that I see as "my" direction. I think, "Oh, it's been tainted. Now I've got to do something new." There's nothing worse than working on your own stuff and thinking that someone else is following you along.

Everything good needs replacing

All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.

Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.

Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.

If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.

Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.

You have to think outside the box. The world is changing every day, the music industry is so different but I think the more creative you are the better.

I think quality will be increasingly important-we're moving away from a time of fast fashion. But really, the only constant in fashion is that you must keep moving forward, otherwise you'll be left behind.

I'm old enough to remember the advent of CD. You thought, "What's this piece of space age technology that's in front of me?" Now I ask, "When's the last time you bought a CD?" You see things come and you see things go, and you have to be on your toes and be nimble and stay with it, or you die. It's exciting. I love technology.

Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots.