Mark Victor Hansen Quotes

I think that game is a testament to what happens when you put no ceiling to what you're capable of doing.

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.

A loser says that's the way it's always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.

Your current thinking got you here. Only new thinking will get you out.

To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character; and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years.

I like the idea of experimenting with different kinds of formats, and I think you've got to keep on your toes and keep changing.

Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

The industrial direction is sometimes too much. We should think more about fantasy.

It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.

Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.

I always want to do something groundbreaking, something different. I think that's what it's always about. If you have the means to do it, why not?

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.

People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.

I think that’s a responsibility that I have, to push possibilities, to show people: “This is the level that things could be at.”

You have to keep being curious. The notion that the present is different than the past, and the future will be different than the present, and the present is past, as we say it. I think I, by nature, am an optimist. Maybe I was driven to escape from my childhood and to be something, create my own world or career the way I wanted it to be. And I keep doing that in very interesting ways.

I do love making films. I want to be a filmmaker that grows and progresses and does keep trying to push myself. I think that's it... and a bit of confidence maybe.

If there can be some paradigm shift thing that you can be part of, that's cool.

The world has improved mostly because unorthodox people did unorthodox things. Not surprisingly, they had the courage and daring to think they could make a difference.

I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or "what you're doing isn't jazz," are just scared because they can't do it. A lot of them just aren't talented enough to do anything new, honestly. It's the people who are talented enough and who have the open mind and who are forward-thinkers are the ones who are doing something new. You tend to hate on what you can't produce.

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

You have to think outside the box. The world is changing every day, the music industry is so different but I think the more creative you are the better.

Innovation is often the hidden thing, because we can't put numbers to it. And yet it's the thing that defines the way we live, the things we'd like to have for everyone whether it's health or education.