Robert G. Allen Quotes

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Making progress on longstanding challenges requires a different lens and a new approach.

If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.

Stop repeating what never worked in the first place. Stand back and ask for a new solution.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

We can't get any new thinking because we can't get any new thinkers.

The old ideas won’t do.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

We aren't afraid to take creative risks, which is the main ingredient in our recipe for change.

The antidote to stagnation is innovation.

Some great minds become great by turning the rubble of an exploded paradigm into something consistent and meaningful. Others become great by laying the gunpowder, grain by grain. Every important revolution needs both kinds of minds to complete itself.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

I like the fact that I like to think out-of-the-box. Thinking out-of-the-box goes along with dressing out-of-the-box and living out-of-the-box. If you want to come up with a really original design idea and you want to capture a whole new design direction, perhaps the best way to arrive at that is not by acting and thinking and doing like everybody else. That's all.

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

Think different in order to change the rules. By definition, if you don't change the rules you aren't a revolutionary, and if you don't think different, you won't change the rules.

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future.

Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.

Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood, stagnation our death knell.

You have to think outside the box. The world is changing every day, the music industry is so different but I think the more creative you are the better.