Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.
The successful people are the ones who can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at. Don Marquis Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd. I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right. We must either find a way or make one. Pearl S. Buck Innovators are inevitably controversial.