Salman Rushdie Quotes

Well, coming at a new work requires a certain amount of patience and energy, and there’s always the risk of disappointment. You can’t really blame people for preferring more of what they already know and like. The trade-off, of course, is that predictability is boring. Repetition is the death of magic.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.

Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Reinvention is the key to surviving this fashion industry. Madonna is the perfect example of reinvention. She has taken something that is so little and turned herself into a legend by simply never staying the same.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.

It's a new game now, you know, you have to bring some fresh stuff.

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

What's dangerous is not to evolve.

The movies that will truly be successful will feel different than the movies of the year before.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

Every time, I try to make something different.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Creativity is what transforms.

If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.

The New is not a fashion, it is a value.

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

My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I've done.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.