Robin Williams Quotes

You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

Something new has the chance to speak to someone immediately. There isn't this expectation of what they're about to hear, so people can be really captivated, really quickly.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.

Your belief systems limit your reality to a sub-set of the solution space that does not contain the answer.

I've come up with my own cure for a closed mind: try it once, and see.

If you think something is impossible, don't disturb the person who is doing it!

You can't get blase about something you haven't done yet.

You have to keep your eyes and heart open - there are always new things to discover, new problems to solve.

Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there's room for improvement.

Not judginess, but openness and curiosity are our proper business. I'm still trying to educate myself. I don't think you need to keep rehearsing your instincts. Far better to seek out models of what you can't do.

Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.

They did not know it was impossible so they did it

Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing

Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

Every scientist should remove the word 'impossible' from their lexicon.

Question everything, even if it represents generations of conventional wisdom.

We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

If I ever get to 100, I'd want to be filled with wonder and wild, adolescent, wide-eyed interest in newness. So let's keep the flame burning. Let's stop thinking everyone over 29, or 49, has to be reinforced by concrete.

Don't tell people they can do the impossible. Tell people that they can do the possible that they think is impossible.

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.

Visionaries see the "impossible" as the inevitable.

Our beliefs are like the unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and what's impossible, what we can and can not do.