Winifred Holtby Quotes

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

Comfort is the killer of creativity.

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills!

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

Comfort is the enemy of creativity.

What is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own feet have worn. You must make tracks into the Unknown.

We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

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

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

To innovate is not to reform.

But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

All adventure is now reactionary.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

What is the purpose of being human and alive without doing new things?

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.