H. G. Wells Quotes

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

I don't ever think it's a good idea to try to recreate the success you've had before; it's all about chasing something fresh and new.

We shouldn't repeat the same for ages on end, but look into the new as well.

Don't let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do.

The only way you improve is to try new things.

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.

Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.

If you don't keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you're the "center square to block."

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.

Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened.

Creativity in life is about saying yes to new ideas.

The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems.

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

No failure means no risk, which means nothing new

There's no point sitting here, using words that mean nothing. Go and experiment. It's time you got out of here. Go and re-conquer your kingdom, which has grown corrupted by routine. Stop repeating the same lesson, because you won't learn anything new that way.

Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the accumulated waters caused by the obstructions which an ultra conservatism has thrown across the stream of progress; and revolution itself is but the sudden overwhelming and sweeping away of impediments that should have been seasonably removed.

At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it.

Discovery is for forward lookers.

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards proving where you've been. Being wrong isn't in the future, or in the past. Being wrong isn't anywhere but being here. Best place to be, eh?

Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

Prepare for the new; expect the new; embrace the new. Otherwise, you'll just repeat what's old.

I always want to stretch myself and do something that I haven't done before.

It's important to keep challenging myself and try to come up with some new face every now and again.

If we have too much clarity, we might not be compelled to continue searching for new ideas.

People don't normally change when things are going well. But I want to see what's next and keep moving. That keeps things fresh.