Ottessa Moshfegh Quotes

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.

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

Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.

Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That's one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative.

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.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

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.

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

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail

Where the rules of the road are not there, then there’s a tremendous amount of opportunity for entrepreneurs to bring in their innovation and their different way of thinking.

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.

Arrogance generally is a bad thing, but with a band, somehow you have to have this gang mentality or this certain degree of arrogance to push forward an idea that's new enough that people aren't comfortable with it at first.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

I think we shouldn't buckle up our creativity. You've got to experiment!

Creativity has got to have some edge to it, doesn't it?

We love experimentation. That's where the gold nuggets come from.

Innovation actually demands freedom and freedom demands innovation.

I want to work with anybody original.

I wish more people would be allowed to take risks and try new things and new ideas because new ideas are what this industry desperately needs. I mean, how many shooters can you make?

Innovation, creativity, and lunacy goes hand in hand.