Maud Adams Quotes

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

The essence of my way of doing business is to not accept the traditional way things are done.

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

I love challenging the status quo.

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.

If no one ever broke the rules, then we'd never advance.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.

Entrepreneurs are misfits to the core. They forge ahead, making their own path and always, always, question the status quo.

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

Nobody says you have to be shackled to tradition.

We have no precedents to guide us, and that is a glorious thing, for precedents, like other guides are disposed to grow tyrannical and refuse to let us do anything on our own initiative. Life grows wearisome in the countries where precedents and conventionality is rule and nothing can happen unless it has happen before.

The social revolution of the nineteenth century can not draw its poetry from the past, it can draw that only from the future. It cannot start upon its work before it has stricken off all superstition concerning the past

Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.

… all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

Be skeptical, question authority, be a rebel. Do not conform and don’t be ordinary. Remember, all human progress is the result of far-sighted people challenging orthodoxy, tradition and rich, powerful, vested interests.

By wrecking something, it's always reinventing. All modern movements in art and music wrecked what came before, in a way - and surprised the cooler generation that was one step ahead. That's how you get ahead.

The people that were most interesting were always questioning the status quo.

Everyone talks about, 'Get your foot in the door,' but I never understood that mentality. Why would I want to go in that house? Why not build my own house? Why not take a chair and smash a window?

Companies that tend to survive are the rebels.

We need these figures who don't exactly go against the grain but create a new grain.

One does not succeed by sticking to convention.