Stephen Bayley Quotes

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

We all know that change is inevitable. It provides us with a challenge and an opportunity to grow and improve and to attract new members with new ideas.

Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.

The Past, The Present, For the Future

Creation takes things forward. Without anything new there is no progress. Creation equals new.

We shouldn't repeat the same for ages on end, but look into the new as well.

Science can never be a closed book. It is like a tree, ever growing, ever reaching new heights. Occasionally the lower branches, no longer giving nourishment to the tree, slough off. We should not be ashamed to change our methods; rather we should be ashamed never to do so.

Tradition and heritage are all dead people's baggage, stop carrying it. Move forward.

I don't have any personal challenges about throwing away the past. If you're not changing, you're giving others a chance to catch up.

The last thing we want is to remain as we are.

In order to make room for the new (whether it's new clothes or new thoughts and ideas), we must release the old and the outworn.

Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

I like change, and I like being in the middle of change.

Everything must change, everything must move forward.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Sometimes if you have a coach or team-mates for too long, you get caught in certain routines. I think it's good to shake up things a little bit.

I never hanker after the past - I prefer to devote myself to new tasks.