Vernon Howard Quotes

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.

We have to open our minds and be ready for the changes.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

We get very set in our ways and it's sometimes hard to look beyond what else is out there.

Vince or Brad or Benicio would say, Maybe we should try this, and Guy was open to changes.

There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

People who work with me say I have a four-step response to new ideas: rejection, reconsideration, acceptance, ownership. I need to listen more patiently.

You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting.

If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.

I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge.

A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody.

The man with a new idea is a crank until his idea succeeds.

All I know is, I'm trying to do things that are a little different whenever I can.

One of my great heroes, John Berger, he's in his 80s now. One of the reasons that he's remained young and all-around fantastic is his ongoing receptivity to new things. I think that's important.

Carry a big basket. In other words, be open to new ideas, different partners, and new practices, and have a willingness to dump out the old and irrelevant to make room for new approaches.

One of the difficult things in a high-growth company is that, even with the best intentions, the company moves so fast, and growth happens so regularly. When you move at that rate, you have to be willing to change, and you have to be willing to take advice.

As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Here's a simple truth: When you surround a good idea with brilliant people, it changes. No matter how much you plan, great ideas have a mind of their own.

We can just keep doing it the way we're doing it. We can attack everybody for small-minded things and crush everybody with a new idea. And where are we going to be? Where we are now - behind. Or we can embrace new things and try to be positive and let everybody play a role.

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

You can't teach an old dog new dog new tricks. Now,you can give an old dog new toys. And we've got one here!

Don't let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do.