Tom Clancy Quotes

If your idea is truly innovative, you're going to hear from the naysayers. After all, if it really were such a good idea, someone would have already done it, right?

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!

Being against a lot of things isn’t smart.

As an improviser, I always find it jarring when I meet someone in real life whose first answer is no. “No, we can’t do that.” “No, that’s not in the budget.” “No, I will not hold your hand for a dollar.” What kind of way is that to live?

A lot of times naysayers are just people that have not taken the time yet.

Those who are critical of Alliance are the same people who have done nothing for 30 years.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else.

Even if I would have left on a good note, there is still going to be people who don't like you, who don't like what you stand for. I can't worry about that.

Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.

No matter how much good you do, there will always be a few per cent of people who don't support you.

My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.

In the world of musical theatre, if everyone says it's a good idea, you wonder why nobody has done it before.

I didn't really start building my own stuff until I was 24, 25 or so, and even then, I ran into a lot of resistance from, like, older folks, like my bosses at other companies or people in the industry that were like, 'Oh that's an interesting idea, but it will never work.' And, I don't know, I kind of believed everything that they told me.

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.

Some people hate the sight of me as soon as they see me on television. They loathe the look of me, and I accept that from the days of variety. I would walk on and some people would open a newspaper and think, 'He's first on, so he can't be any good.' I accept that.

If you want to do something different, you're going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

I'm not accepting of whiners.

Not every change will work out and your critics will focus mercilessly on those that don’t.

If you can't tolerate critics, don't do anything new or interesting.

There's always going to be someone who doesn't like you, but what can they do?

I'm so used to naysayers.

Whenever you have a good idea, it's inevitable some people will criticize it and deny it. Some people will try to prove it's wrong.