Natalie Massenet Quotes

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

The most successful people in the world are the ones who thought of that idea that was 'too crazy to work.'

I was always excited about doing things with people that were ahead of their time, that were sort of out of sync with the rest of society.

Sometimes, you're before your time with ideas, and you have to accept that you can't know.

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

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

A true artist is always out of his time.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

I believe I was ahead of my time.

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

I was a little bit ahead of my time.

I'm fifty years ahead of my time.

There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

I have always been ahead of my time.

Among tech-minded kids, I think Alan Turing was a tremendous inspiration. He was a guy that was so different than the people around him. He was an outsider in his own time, but because he was an outsider is precisely why he was able to accomplish things nobody thought was possible.

The man who puts life into an idea is acclaimed a genius, because he does the right thing at the right time. Therein lies the difference between the genius and a commonplace man.

If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack.

There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

I love creative people.