Julie Gayet Quotes

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

Part of the beauty of Silicon Valley is that people generally encourage you to think crazy. It's the hypothesis that there's nothing sacred that can't be changed.

My goal isn't to be one of the best; it's to change the game, to change the way things work.

You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different, and critics say we make the same thing again and again in Hollywood, then you go and make something different, and you get kicked in the gut for it.

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

Let me just say this - sometimes being a trailblazer is highly overrated.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

When I started, my teachers told me that I had to sing 'Mozart, Mozart, Mozart.' I said, 'No, I want to sing all the other stuff.' If you do not push yourself, you will stay the same. Maybe some singers are happy with that, but I have to move, I have to do something new always.

Powerful imaginations are conservative.

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.

One who accepts the general ideas of his time gets along smoothest, but he does least for progress.

Mediocrity never goes away - but neither, I hope, do those who are willing to challenge it.

Tradition matters. To me it's not a limiting force; it's a springboard.

If I do something I think is new, it will be misunderstood, but if people like it, I will be disappointed because I haven't pushed them enough. The more people hate it, maybe the newer it is. Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.

We can just keep doing it the way we're doing it. We can attack everybody for small-minded things and crush everybody with a new idea. And where are we going to be? Where we are now - behind. Or we can embrace new things and try to be positive and let everybody play a role.

For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.

I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always evolving but never interrupted.

Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.

The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you ever utter the words, 'We've always done it that way,' I urge you to wash out your mouth with soap.

If I do something I think is new, it will be misunderstood, but if people like it, I will be disappointed because I haven't pushed them enough. The more people hate it, maybe the newer it is. Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change. The place I am always looking for-because in order to keep the business I need to make a little compromise between my values and customers' values-is the place where I make something that could almost-but not quite-be understood by everyone.

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.

The new is threatening to those who have mastered the old.