Anna Sui Quotes

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

To be honest, I think we should find first the possibility to make it. Research is first - if you're not interested, you never can find something. Many things happen from forgotten machines - ones that are no longer used.

The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form new opinions.

It's hard to find ideas that aren't picked over and harder to get real returns and differentiate yourself. We are entering a new environment. The days of big returns are gone.

Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.

We are constantly scanning for opportunities.

Hearst makes smart investments and partnerships across important industries, and HearstLive is the perfect opportunity to highlight the amazing innovations coming out of all of those brands.

When you have a concept and a sport like this, you have to have a vision.

I think every brilliant mind is a little bit crazy.

When the market turns down, a lot of people lose jobs... and that's the time people become entrepreneurs. Downturns end up being the best times to start companies.

You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'

A Midwestern municipal government isn't the first thing that leaps to mind when you think of innovation, but it ought to be.

There is no point in playing safe, because the audiences love different quirks: something that is crazy and out-of-the-box. I think that's what my space is, and if you are going to have your own space in the industry, this is where I want to be.

I've always tried to do things a little bit before they were being done by the mainstream. I challenge myself to do that in stand-up also, to talk about things that I'm not hearing anybody talk about onstage and in the media.

We try to bring something different for every tour.

Manchester has always been a massively innovative city, loads of great scientific findings have come from Manchester. The first computer in the world was there and took up a whole building. So Manchester has always been very innovative.

Young directors are a delight to work with. With no preconceived notions, they provide enough creative fodder for actors.

Oneohtrix Point Never is total freedom to do what I think is right.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

You only stay in front by coming up with ideas your new competitors haven't thought of yet.

I begin by looking for megatrends, changes in the world that will create major new demands. My goal is to create a company that can be there to meet those demands.

There is no oil so thick as to destroy the imagination.

The best ideas and the most useful and ground-breaking are often, though not always, in one sense, very simple ideas.

Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.