Rob Lowe Quotes

There's always a risk if you don't do things the way you've done things before.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

In a society that glorifies the pioneers, it's easy to think that an endeavor is only worth pursuing if you can be the first to pursue it.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

The pioneers get all the arrows.

It's always been very important to me to try to do projects which are breaking new ground.

I love being the dude that does what no else is doing in the genre. It's exciting and terrifying at the same time.

I am accused often of too much experimentation.., but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in the same condition. I thrust forward into space as science and the rest do.

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.

What I love about being a member of KISS is that we're the 'John Glenns' of rock - we always have to be the first in anything we do, and I love that.

The most successful people are so original.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

All adventure is now reactionary.

I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.

I'm an optimist - that's why I try to invent different systems; otherwise, I may as well stop right now. Sometimes I get the feeling the French cinema holds on tightly to what exists already.

There's always opposition when you do something big. I do many things that are controversial. When people see it, they love it!

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

Wherever I see people doing something the way it's always been done, the way it's 'supposed' to be done, following the same old trends, well, that's just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

I think when you're doing something cutting edge like 'The Matrix,' it might mean when everybody's saying 'no' that you're really on the right track.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

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

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.