Danny Meyer Quotes

What makes the food that we do at Alinea so interesting on the outside is that we really don't let ourselves say no to an idea.

When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

I really like cooking according to the season. I like to get creative with what's fresh.

The inspiring thing is that people are often more experimental with their desserts than other courses. It allows me to be more creative and excite people.

You can't patent a move. It's challenging enough to come up with a move that nobody else does... I try and do things that I would want to see done that I haven't seen other people do. Most wrestlers obviously don't think that way, and instead they steal somebody's move as soon as they've gone on to the next company.

There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.

Engagement with young people is always a refreshing break with routine. It's also a reminder of how we need to constantly keep our thinking agile and unencumbered by traditional rules.

Creativity needs time to harness before it goes out, and because that's difficult, memes have become the creative language.

All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.

Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty.

Creativity is the art of the impossible

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

It struck me that Steve Jobs, known to be such a brilliant speaker, had a very difficult time explaining things when he was younger. He was describing technology that didn't exist. He had MIT engineers, and he was trying to tell them what he wanted; but there were no terms for what he wanted yet. I think a lot of his early frustration was trying to quickly get his vision to the finish line.

Doing something different, doing something original is always fun because there is a lot of creativity that comes with it.

All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others.

The only unique contribution that we will ever make in this world will be born of our creativity.

Good writing is always new.

Students may feel the criticism is harsh, but I think it's possible they haven't had criticism before. It's my job to point out when something is badly done, or when there's no point of view. To build a brand you have to have something about you. If not personality, then some thought process. I'm 40, and they're young, so they're meant to be informing me. They should be bringing me a book or something that I haven't seen, not like some obscure chant book by Dominican monks, but an image of the way they see the world.

In my everyday life, I can be as square as I want. But when it comes to movies and telling stories, I can't. I've got to be radical, and on some level, that's what I like to do.

Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.

I love to brainstorm. I like to mentor. When you're starting out, especially as an entrepreneur, you really don't know what you're doing. You go out there and you try so many things. The key in the process, to me, is that you keep trying and you never give up.

I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions.

I think one of the things about creativity is not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing.