Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

I'm fifty years ahead of my time.

I believe I was ahead of my time.

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

I was a little bit ahead of my time.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.

My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing.

We did it with passion; we didn't do it like everyone else. Teams nowadays are still trying to duplicate that, but no one has yet. We shuffled down and we did it. We did it in an unique fashion.

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

What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'

I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

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.

Genius is never understood in its own time.

What I have done here no one has done before.

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

Believe me, what I have done in 'Company' has never been attempted before.

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

The things I've ventured into have always been ahead of time!

There's no-one in particular that we look up to, because we strive to be something that's never gone before.

All my records and videos were groundbreaking.

Philip Glass once told me, "They can always copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you're going to do."

I have always been ahead of my time.

A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.