Gioconda Belli Quotes

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.

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.

We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.

You can absolutely be what you can't see! That's what innovators and disruptors do.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.

If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.

The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward

The man with a new idea is a crank until his idea succeeds.

Leaders must go ahead even when moving ahead is controversial. You must be ahead of time, because if you want to represent the status quo, what do you need leaders for?

We must dare to invent the future

Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

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

Perhaps the spirit of adventure, be it mental or material adventure, is a factor so essential in human progress that no emphasis of it is undue.

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

Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

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