Renata Adler Quotes

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

Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

You are either going forward or you are not.

I love challenging the status quo.

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

There is no such thing as standing still.

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

We especially need imagination in science.

There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it's a tree or a human being.

Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: It's painful, and it's the last resort for nations.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Historic opportunities are missed because we fixate on what folks say they want. And what folks say they want in business and politics is limited to what they believe is possible.

The term 'innovative' or 'innovation' is often vague or ambiguous. But in our definition, innovation means to make something which people think impossible possible.

We got to bust through some walls to make changes.

It's crazy how fast time flies and how things progress.

The antidote to stagnation is innovation.

No change, no chance.

You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.

What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.

A life without change is not a life; it is a stagnant pool.