Marc Benioff Quotes

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

I've worked with a lot of first time directors; in fact, I enjoy it because there is a certain beginner's mind that they bring into a project that isn't loaded with the way things have been done before. There's a certain freedom to it.

I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

I always tend to favor the newer idea.

If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you've got to get away from the norm. You've got to go for it.

The day before something is a breakthrough, it is a crazy idea.

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

I think it's been obvious from the beginning that my projects are not going to be something that people already have in mind. You can't be thinking about such things when you create something.

I think if you want to be groundbreaking, you have to do something that's never been done.

I think a critical part of being successful in our industry is having a beginner's mind

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. They also need to be conscientious. An innovator who has brilliant ideas but lacks the discipline and persistence to carry them out is merely a dreamer ... But crucially, innovators need to be disagreeable ... They are people willing to take social risks-to do things that others might disapprove of.

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.

Don't be afraid of silly ideas.

We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next.

The critical mind is the creative mind.

It's difficult to get your creative juices flowing if you're always being practical, following rules, afraid to make mistakes, not looking into outside areas, or under the influence of any of the other mental locks.

Being creative isn't confined to a specific set of professions -- everyone can and should be innovative.

Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative. That is creation. What it creates has nothing to do with it. Freedom from the known is the state of a mind that is in creation.

To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.

It's always my mission to try to do something that hasn't been done before, whether that's musically, lyrically or in terms of mixing.