Emma Goldman Quotes

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.

Always challenge the old ways.

If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones.

To innovate is not to reform.

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

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

New ideas are not born in a conforming environment.

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

Innovation violates tradition--attacks it in public and steals from it in private.

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

All human advances occur in the outlaw area.

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.

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

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.

I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

You look at any industry - you're not innovating unless people are questioning it. If you're innovating, you're doing something nobody's done before, which means you're re-writing rules, resetting boundaries, re-creating systems. And that means the traditional industry is going to question it.

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

I believe in being an innovator.