Roger Penrose Quotes

Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.

The desire to get from point A to point B in the shortest, most efficient amount of time without ever wandering off path, can mean you miss out on those happy accidents that push you further and faster in a direction you never even considered.

Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.

It's important to have people who will say to you that you're really off the beaten track.

Much of what we're going to try will not work, and much of what does work will do so for unanticipated reasons.

I think there is something to be said for what you can do when you don't know what you aren't supposed to be able to do.

In life, all things have come to me as a surprise and I didn't have any plans to do films. So let's see how it goes.

The idea of me writing something that I'd get to be in as well was not what I saw coming. I do think that life works that way. When you kind of let go of something and accept that it hasn't worked, it takes all the pressure off, and then you end up getting it.

Really good ideas are always good beyond what you anticipated originally.

Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative thinking.".

Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in.

The importance of creativity in our country is greatly misunderstood.

There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur

If coming up with ten ideas sounds too hard, then come up with twenty.

Sometimes there are really happy mistakes.

Creativity is the antidote to destruction.

One of the things that I do like about filmmaking is that you find out how to solve new problems.

I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.

Most innovation comes from outside your industry applied to your own

The accidents are things that audiences always remember most, I've found on my own movies. The things that they like the most are the things that were just by accident. So you have to create a situation where nothing but accidents can happen the entire time.

Nothing works until it does. Nobody knows anything. You don't know what people are going to respond to. People are always surprised by stuff.

Many of the world's greatest discoveries have been by accident. I mean, look at the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, or Botox.

My wife and I have now founded Lavender Pictures. If one has one's own company, there are very few surprises, but there's still the actual thrill of trying to get these projects off the ground. We're meeting with some measure of success. Always, now and at any stage of my career, I'm open to ambush, but there have been the most extraordinary set of coincidences, which continues through my journey, and I find it thrilling. Often, out of left field and quite randomly, comes a project and I think, "My god, there you are!" It's quite beautiful, really.

Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.