Bertrand Russell Quotes

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

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

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received--hatred. The great creators--the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors--stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed.

You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

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

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

New ideas that fly in the face of conventional wisdom of the day are always greeted with doubt and scorn, even fear.

What's the fun in doing conventional things? I would rather be known as someone who is unconventional. I like being unconventional. I like doing things which are different. That's what I like... It gives me a boost as an actor.

Whatever you do, don't play it safe. Don't do things the way they've always been done. Don't try to fit the system. If you do what's expected of you, you'll never accomplish more than others expect.

The idea is to take it a step forward and innovate. Or else why am I doing it? I don't want to be just another can in the assembly line. I want to create - do something that is totally different and unusual.

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

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

Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.

If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.

I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.

You want to stand out and be unique and do something different. I always try to zig when they zag - I guess it's a football term, but it applies to a lot of different areas of life.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.