John W. Gardner Quotes

You have to think outside the box. The world is changing every day, the music industry is so different but I think the more creative you are the better.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.

Vions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Creativity means believing you have greatness.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

Imagination is ... the foundation of all invention and innovation.

We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Think of things not as they are, but as they might be. Don't merely dream- but create.

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'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

Dream more than others think practical.

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.

The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

I admire people who are creative.

I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

The condition of all development is not to be content with the present, but to have the courage to ask how everything can be made better and the good fortune to find a right answer to this question in thought or in action.

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.