Quote

Successful innovations become conventions.

Mason Cooley

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
Aphorist
Successful
Become
Innovations
Conventions
Innovation

More quotes by Mason Cooley

Image
Once I find the right maxim to apply, I feel that I have done all that can be expected of me.
Mason Cooley
Image
When I get the point, I often don't know what to do with it.
Mason Cooley
Image
I tried self-sacrifice a couple of times in my youth.
Mason Cooley
Image
Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.
Mason Cooley
Image
It is hard to tell truth, and hard not to.
Mason Cooley
Image
When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.
Mason Cooley
Image
Liberal Doctrine: it is not children who misbehave, but parents.
Mason Cooley
Image
The Enlightenment needs more shadow the Romantic Movement less.
Mason Cooley
Image
A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does.
Mason Cooley
Image
God has replaced sex as the unmentionable.
Mason Cooley
Image
Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.
Mason Cooley
Image
New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health.
Mason Cooley
Image
Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.
Mason Cooley
Image
Moderation in all things is best, but it's pretty hard to get excited about it.
Mason Cooley
Image
Alone, I am drunk on my thoughts in company, I am sober again.
Mason Cooley
Image
Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence.
Mason Cooley
Image
Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.
Mason Cooley
Image
Looking backward at what has been lost, I feel sad, then indifferent, and at last relieved.
Mason Cooley
Image
Make the expectations lively enough, and action will follow.
Mason Cooley
Image
Sexual attraction pairs people, but does not match them.
Mason Cooley