Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

My mind contains many good ideas, but it's not always easy to squeeze one out.

I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

If there's a way into a situation, there's a way out.

Sometimes a problem will seem completely insurmountable. Then someone comes up with a simple new idea, or just a rearrangement of old ideas, that completely eliminates it.

Thinking is my hobby. But sometimes you get to where you're stuck and you can't figure it out, so you just go work on another project. I always have multiple projects.

We all have things that limit us and that challenge us. But really, our real limitations are the ones we believe.

Creative ideas aren't like Jenga blocks, where they fall apart and you've got to start from scratch, though it can feel that way.

Over time, we amass limiting beliefs about how life supposedly is - beliefs that are not valid. Then we allow these limiting beliefs to stop us from fully living our happiest lives.

What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question.

If you really don't know where to start or if you're stuck, start generating random connections and allow your intuition to tell you if one might lead somewhere interesting.

Rain on my head, call that brainstorming.

Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

You cannot solve a problem with the mind that created it. First you must change the mind.

I would say that he has a rather limited and uncreative way of looking at the situation.

there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. N my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up.

You'll often find that it's not mom or dad, husband or wife, or the kids that's stopping you. It's you. Get out of your own way.

How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?

If you believe you can only go so far, it is an obstacle.

There are no unresourceful people, only unresourceful states.