Theodore Sturgeon Quotes

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

Originals are nonconformists, people who not only have new ideas but take action to champion them. They are people who stand out and speak up. Originals drive creativity and change in the world. They're the people you want to bet on.

For me, I always admire anyone that's entrepreneurs or inventors.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

The world needs many more dreamers. Unreasonable souls who fight the urge to be ordinary.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.

Disruptors are the ones with a keen sense of how the world is changing and how to get in front of change, driven by curiosity. The disrupted - not so much.

Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.

I believe there are Steve Jobses all around us. Really, what is happening is that they're being edited out of importance.

There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.

You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars.

Those that start things have an advantage over those that follow.

At any one time the world has a very limited number of Steve Jobs or Winston Churchills or Thomas Watson the firsts. These are wonderful people and we can learn much from them, but praying for a few more of them to solve the world's problems is not a great idea.

America is full of entrepreneurs, inventors, and dreamers.

The world is divided into three types of people in business: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.

I’ve always been interested in leaders and rule breakers and artists and politicians.

The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone.

It's the risk takers that move the human race forward.

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have always been called troublemakers.

I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations.

There are millions of people who can get things done. There are very, very few people who will change the pattern in the whole field.

There are always two kinds of people in the world - those who pioneer and those who plod. The plodders always attack the pioneers. They say that the pioneers have gobbled up all the opportunity, when, as a plain matter of fact, the plodders would have nowhere to plod had not the pioneers first cleared the way.