Sun Ra Quotes

Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.

Today's 'best practices' lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.

If everything you do works, then you're not taking many risks and probably aren't innovating either.

Move fast, take risks, it's okay to try big things you're better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.

Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.

Part of the beauty of Silicon Valley is that people generally encourage you to think crazy. It's the hypothesis that there's nothing sacred that can't be changed.