Julian Barnes Quotes

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.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

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

Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

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

A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.

To innovate is not to reform.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

It's a new game now, you know, you have to bring some fresh stuff.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Creativity is what transforms.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

The New is not a fashion, it is a value.

If you want to really change something, do not try to fight the existing reality. create a new reality.

Imagine something new, or you will only go where you have been.

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.

If I do something I think is new, it will be misunderstood, but if people like it, I will be disappointed because I haven't pushed them enough. The more people hate it, maybe the newer it is. Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.

We need these figures who don't exactly go against the grain but create a new grain.

The antidote to stagnation is innovation.

The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.

We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

Every time we create something new we go from zero to one.

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement