George McGovern Quotes

If you're ahead of your time, who's going to listen? If you're behind the times, it's boring.

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

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

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

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

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

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

Genius is never understood in its own time.

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

I've realized that I've pioneered many things and have been a front-runner in a lot of things. I did many things ahead of time.

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

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

Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.

The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

If you're in the idea business, it doesn't matter where you're from. It matters if we care about the change you're making.

There's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric, and if you're too late, you're a failure, but if you hit it right on the head, you're a genius.

You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things.

It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance.

I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule. Clarence Birdseye

I don't think I'm before my time, I just don't think I'm in my time.

Being one step ahead makes you a leader Being fifty steps ahead could make you a martyr.

Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.

A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

A lot of stuff I do, 10 years later it becomes popular.