Anita Dunn Quotes

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.

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

Without choice, you have no innovation. Without innovation, you have nothing.

Fearlessness is the mother of reinvention.

It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity.

I'm not afraid to have a really weird idea or, you know, take a really bad guitar solo.

For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.

Creativity requires the freedom to consider 'unthinkable' alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. Every organization, every society is under the spell of assumptions so familiar that they are never questioned, least of all by those most intimately involved.

Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.

I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.

I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Now's the time to take a chance, come on we've gotta make a stand. What do we have to lose the choice is in our hands.

Some people say I was very brave, but I really just didn't know any better. All I had was my originality.

The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

I'm not afraid to move away from funny. I'm not afraid of that.

Invention is the mother of necessities.

Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution. Be brave, be brave.

All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.