Anita Dunn Quotes

I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.

I believe in being an innovator.

I think if you want to be groundbreaking, you have to do something that's never been done.

I try to do what has never been done before.

It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance.

Everything we are doing is on the cutting edge of so many different industries and so many different interests. We're out there in the sunshine, and it feels fine.

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

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

I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

Well, I like to be kept on my toes. I look for a challenge. I don't like to recreate steps that I've already walked. I like to see if I can create something new.

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

If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited to solve every problem on Earth before they did their research or before they were curious about doing something new, we'd never have made a lot of the progress we have.

I want to create new value by doing something people haven't done before.

We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.

I really don't find revivals very interesting because I like new work a lot. I feel like if you're going to pay me, then let me do what I do and let me try to solve some problems. Let me try to make something fly. Why would I do something that everybody has already done the hard work on? But that's me. Tons of people do revivals really well.

I always try to do something nobody else has done.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

I am accused often of too much experimentation.., but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in the same condition. I thrust forward into space as science and the rest do.

When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.

I feel like so much of what I'm doing is making a road where there is no road and inviting people on that road with me. It's scary. It's scary, but I can't listen to the voices that are saying form is the only way, or that there is only this kind of form or that kind of form.

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.

I always want to do something groundbreaking, something different. I think that's what it's always about. If you have the means to do it, why not?