Richard Ashcroft Quotes

I was always excited about doing things with people that were ahead of their time, that were sort of out of sync with the rest of society.

What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'

Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside rather than submitting to the limitations of current dilemmas

I believe I was ahead of my time.

If you're ahead of your time, who's going to listen? If you're behind the times, it's boring.

I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.

Like all pioneers I have labored more in faith and hope.

I'm fifty years ahead of my time.

There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

I have always been ahead of my time.

A true artist is always out of his time.

In Silicon Valley, if you spend a lot of time thinking about the obstacles, you'll talk yourself out of everything, because the more you look at it, the less logical something sounds, since no one has done it yet.

Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

How to teach people to do what hasn't been done is a great riddle.

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.