Nick Bantock Quotes

I'm most interested in that moment when my entire perspective changes, and I have to reconsider everything.

There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

By seeing differently, we do differently

I don't think anything changes until ideas change.

Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.

Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight.

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

Our consciousness, our ideas, our frame of reference and our belief system determine whether we go to the river of life with a teaspoon, a cup, a bucket or a barrel.

Sometimes I have good ideas. I love that part of our job. It's a constant process of searching, of exploring stuff, and realizing things. You can be in the middle of the film and it's like, "Oh my God! I think we need to do this! Maybe in this scene she should shave her head!"

I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can see the edge of the world.

It would be wonderful if ideas could be the new rock 'n roll

To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way ... things are simpler" is always a gain.

Mainly, my job is to be on the outside and bring ideas into the company and forge change. Most people hate change—it’s threatening. I thrive on it.

There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.

There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.

Often when works at a hard question, nothing good is accomplished at the first attack. Then one takes a rest, long or short, and sits down anew to the work. During the first half-hour, as before, nothing is found, and then all of a sudden the decisive idea presents itself to the mind.

You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live.

What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.

Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.

If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.

We all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them to rethink long-held ideas.

It was as if his point of view had, within seconds, gone from that of an ant to that of an eagle. For the sky was hollow, and the world was round.

What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that.

One sound idea is all that you need to achieve success.

Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.