Tom Peters Quotes

The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

The world is changing. And a lot of people in Formula One are starting to understand this.

To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know.

Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.

Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard.

If you ever have a new idea, and it's really new, you have to expect that it won't be widely accepted immediately. It's a long hard process.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

People who have a new idea often just stop having an old idea.

The man with a new idea is a crank until his idea succeeds.

When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.

The world is changing and people don't like change.

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.

We can know a lot. And still, no doubt, there are rash and wonderful ideas brewing somewhere; there are many surprises yet to come.

New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the new cannot penetrate.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

People are the most difficult thing in the world to change

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.