Albert Schweitzer Quotes

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.

Originals are nonconformists, people who not only have new ideas but take action to champion them. They are people who stand out and speak up. Originals drive creativity and change in the world. They're the people you want to bet on.

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

For me, I always admire anyone that's entrepreneurs or inventors.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received--hatred. The great creators--the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors--stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed.

The world needs many more dreamers. Unreasonable souls who fight the urge to be ordinary.

At any one time the world has a very limited number of Steve Jobs or Winston Churchills or Thomas Watson the firsts. These are wonderful people and we can learn much from them, but praying for a few more of them to solve the world's problems is not a great idea.

I think if you're really good at what you do, you can see outside the box.

Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.

Without theory we can only copy.

Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

Creating is no problem - problem solving is not creating.

At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

One must be an inventor to read well.

To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.

The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.

I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations.

Strain your brain more than your eye... You can copy a thing to a certain limit. Then you must use intellect.

I've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.

The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.