Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all.

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

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

Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

I'm really looking at questions of power, navigation, and spin. Then I am also looking for real-world stories that give me greater insight into smart and new ways of thinking.

Negotiation is not trading. Negotiation is creating new and original solutions.

The best moments are when, together with... you bring information, you bring data to bear in a way that helps illuminate something that you just don't really understand. Even if it doesn't completely clarify it, it just, you know, helps bring it together.

Bike riding is where I go to solve all the problems. I know you can't tell from looking at me, but I'm a long distance bike rider, I'll ride my bike and by the time I get back I will have solved whatever problem I had creatively or found that other thing that I was looking for. That's a big part of it.

Give your mind as long as possible to come up with something original.

What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

Many times I can see a solution to something differently and quicker than other people. I see the end zone and say 'This is where I want to go.'

Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.

Every problem has a creative solution.

It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.

If you give the actors a problem 'I'm not getting something out of the scene' and it's the writing, we just don't have the scene, if you give them the problem and just give them some key thoughts they can bring some great solutions to the equation too. So if it's just not perfect, or I'm not getting all I can, I'll open it up to them and say let's talk about it.

I went to Seattle as just another geek in the food chain, thinking, "Well, in my own puny little way, I'd rather be a part of history than just sit and watch it on TV." So, the fact that so many people are starting to ask the right questions and rack their brains for solutions does give me hope.

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.

In The 3rd Alternative, Stephen Covey urges us to chart a course beyond the suboptimal solutions to all our crises - beyond left and right, and beyond the many false choices in front of us. The 3rdAlternative is a wise and welcome echo of Einstein's warning that the problems we're facing today cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Being a visionary leader is not about giving speeches and inspiring the troops. How I spend my day is pretty much the same as how any executive spends his day. Being a visionary leader is about solving day-to-day problems with my vision in mind.

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.

When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security.

I had to persuade a dog to swallow a pill. I twittered for advice and I got suggestion after suggestion. Most of them didn't work. 'Put the pill in the sausage.' No - that doesn't work. 'Cheese.' No. Then someone said: 'You wrap it in butter and it will slide down.' I tried it and it worked! And I'd learnt how to give a pill to a dog through the magic of Twitter.

It seems that we're better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them.