Thomas Sankara Quotes

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

Let's go invent tomorrow...

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

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.

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

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.

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 pioneers get all the arrows.

I feel like the fools who dream and who take risks are the ones who change the world.

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.

It takes vision and courage to create

If you don't have a vision you're going to be stuck in what you know. And the only thing you know is what you've already seen.

We should be building great things that don't exist.

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

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.

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

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

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

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.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

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.

Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'