James Harvey Robinson Quotes

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

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

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.

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

You have to be willing to offend in order to make progress.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

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

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

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.

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

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.

The pioneers get all the arrows.

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

Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.