Albert Schweitzer Quotes

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

When we conceive a new idea we are thinking directly from the creativity of God.

I don't believe in the sort of "Eureka!" moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time.

I think it is the general rule that the originator of a new idea is not the most suitable person to develop it, because his fears of something going wrong are really too strong... At age 69.

It's not the ink, it's the think.

To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.

Sometimes it takes a germ of an idea, which takes a long time to digest.

It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know.

we are, in this country, more open to new ideas. But we are also, it seems to me, more inclined to hail the new as absolute truth - until the next new comes along.

Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have always been called troublemakers.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.

I love being directed. Because it's another thought, it's another fresh idea. You're so grateful for an original idea that you haven't had.

If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.

Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost anyone can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.

I'd just like to see thinking come back in style. I haven't heard a new idea in eight years. Let's get ordinary people arguing and talking again. I want to trigger new circuits in their nervous systems. That's the philosopher's job and I am the most important philosopher at this time.

At the interface of the say-able and the unsay-able is the novel, the new, the never before seen, said or done. And that's what I think it's important to try and bring out, ideas. Because I think we are the animals that bring back ideas.

Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.

I pay attention to what's going on around me. I'm always looking for new energy, new talent, new voices. When you do that I think it's easier to come up with fresh ideas. It's not that my career has been based on surprising people, but it's been about challenging myself - to constantly do new things that are going to broaden my own mind and in the process, hopefully, connect with other people.

How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths.

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

I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie.