Bertrand Russell Quotes

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

To do something innovative means that you reject reason.

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

I think being a little nuts is helpful.

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

One of the greatest things that Apple and Jobs were very good at doing was daring to do the very different thing. It's what I did with my cookbook, frankly.

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.

It's important to have people who will say to you that you're really off the beaten track.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.

If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.

I like companies that try and break away from the norm.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

No creator was prompted by a desire to serve his brothers, for his brothers rejected the gift he offered and that gift destroyed the slothful routine of their lives. His truth was his only motive.