Sargent Shriver Quotes

We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

The most powerful thing in the world is an idea.

Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.

The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.

My biggest hope that we're going to make it here is that this thinking is being manifested & really employed by the young world. Will they be going fast enough to overcome the initiatives of the bureaucracies & the fears operative in those bureaucracies? It's a very touch & go question.

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

One man interacting creatively with others can move the world.

When a new idea assaults the power of established authority, authority always screams out that morality has been affronted. It makes no difference if this idea is that the world is round or that women should vote or that the workers should control industry.

One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.

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

Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost anyone can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.

To make an idea become a reality is a process that fascinates me; otherwise it stays just an idea.

The world progresses only through misunderstanding.

It's a standard thing you hear from startup people - that their product is somehow improving the world. And if you follow the reasoning, you will get somewhere, and I'll tell you where you get: You'll get to the description of what happens to the winners under the system that they're building.

If you want to promote anything, all the work that you put into it is basically promoting the idea of it so that people will go for it. And if they don't go for it, you can't institute it. You can't do it.

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.

It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.

Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.

Social evolution is a resultant of the interaction of two wholly distinct factors: the individual ... bearing all the power of initiative and origination in his hands; and, second, the social environment with its power of adopting or rejecting both him and his gifts. Both factors are essential to change. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages our interest. Omitting then for the present all notice of the stationary class, we shall find that the movement party divides itself into two classes, the actors, and the students.

The first - the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur - is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.

It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true