Ann Brashares Quotes

Throughout the history of el Bulli, there have been many changes in its organisation or philosophy. This is another one of those moments. There will be risk, and freedom, and creativity. But there won't be opening hours, or reservations, or routines.

We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.

There's nothing efficient about innovation.

With innovation, there is always risk.

My advice is to go for the messes - that's where the action is.

Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.

At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

There's chaos out there, and chaos means opportunity.

The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps.

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.

We're going to take risks. What has always been will not necessarily always be forever.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

I'm going to keep on finding out the kind of man I am through my music. That's the one place I can be free. But the reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.