Savion Glover Quotes

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

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

My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing.

Entrepreneurs are misfits to the core. They forge ahead, making their own path and always, always, question the status quo.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

Don't follow trends, start trends.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

I see that idea that we need a new form as something critical. I mean, we do need to invent and not be benchmarking all the time. That's important to me.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

Nobody's interested in something that could've been done before.

What is now commonplace was once not, and I think that's a testament to what it means to really break the mold and push the limits.

My goal isn't to be one of the best; it's to change the game, to change the way things work.

We wanted to do something really, really different, something next level, and use new technology and things.

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones.

Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.

I always want to do something groundbreaking, something different. I think that's what it's always about. If you have the means to do it, why not?

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?

Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

To innovate is not to reform.

The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.