Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

Who wants to see the same play again? I certainly don't want to write the same play again and again.

I wouldn't want to make the same film every time. I get easily bored.

We do worry that we might be making something we've made before. It's important that we make something we've never made before.

I didn't want to write the same book over and over.

I never do the same thing twice.

One has to do something new in order to see something new.

I try my best to find variety in what I'm doing, but there's a lot out there that's the same.

If I do something I think is new, it will be misunderstood, but if people like it, I will be disappointed because I haven't pushed them enough. The more people hate it, maybe the newer it is. Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change. The place I am always looking for-because in order to keep the business I need to make a little compromise between my values and customers' values-is the place where I make something that could almost-but not quite-be understood by everyone.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

We should be focusing on building things that do not exist.

Nothing is new except arrangement.

Simplicity, without variety, is wholly insipid.

I try as hard as I can for everything to be different from one movie to the next.

Change is upsetting. Repetition is tedious. Three cheers for variation!

You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things.

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

The novelty we want is always close to the familiar.

When you make something that everyone likes, it's very easy to say, "Well, I'll just repeat that." Because that was easy. I have a formula. But creatively, it's not very interesting.

It's always about trying to do something that's different and not repeating yourself because then you lose your creative stamina. You need to have new challenges.

It's important to keep challenging myself and try to come up with some new face every now and again.

What's the point of being young if you're not going to make new things, I wonder?