Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.

The old ideas won’t do.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?

The world is kept alive only by heretics.

A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it.

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

To innovate is not to reform.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

I love challenging the status quo.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.

If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.

I see that idea that we need a new form as something critical. I mean, we do need to invent and not be benchmarking all the time. That's important to me.