Edgar Lee Masters Quotes

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

Not everyone is going to love you. Not everyone is going to like what you do, and you see a lot of people don't want to let go of the bands that they love. They don't want to move forward. They don't want to let new things come in; they're scared of change. They're scared of new bands taking over their genre. They're just scared of change.

You shouldn't fight change. You should be absolutely open to change.

Nobody ever wants to have change, that's for sure. But when it's good, it's really good.

One who accepts the general ideas of his time gets along smoothest, but he does least for progress.

Any time there's significant change, there's going to be some people who embrace the change and others who are against the change.

The new is threatening to those who have mastered the old.

Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.

When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.

Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

All adventure is now reactionary.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don't stop moving.

Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.

Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

I'm an optimist - that's why I try to invent different systems; otherwise, I may as well stop right now. Sometimes I get the feeling the French cinema holds on tightly to what exists already.

If you don't hop aboard the change train, you're gonna get derailed.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

We're not good at propping up old carcasses. We want to be on top of what's vital at any particular time, and not just hold onto something because it has a name.