Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

Be skeptical, question authority, be a rebel. Do not conform and don’t be ordinary. Remember, all human progress is the result of far-sighted people challenging orthodoxy, tradition and rich, powerful, vested interests.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

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

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

To innovate is not to reform.

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.

You have to be willing to offend in order to make progress.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary.

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.

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

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 have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

Change is not always progress.

You cannot make a living on the past …the stone age did not end because they ran out of stones.

The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics or religion, without controversy.