Michael Seibel Quotes

The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

I did not come here to repeat what you already know. I have come to reveal something new. I want to share with you a new revelation from God.

I only like to write shows that I feel like no one has seen before.

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

What you don't know would make a great book.

What I wanted to do was to try to create a philosophy upon a completely new foundation.

It’s a really exciting moment when you know something about the whole world that nobody else does.

I definitely have some ideas that perhaps people haven't seen before, so I look forward to putting those on film.

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.

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

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

I've never had an original thought in my lifeand there's tons of people on the internet happy to tell me just that.

Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.

No man can prophesy with another's parable.

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.

The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair offers no special opportunities.

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed to us in a new light, it behooves us in our scientific thinking to become masters of the situation, for it is not inconceivable that sooner than we suspect, as has often been the case before in history, this vision may disappear, the opportunity may be lost, and the world will once again present a static, uniform, and inflexible countenance.

Even If you're doing the same thing over & over, U need to discover something new, fantastic & unbelievable that went unnoticed the time before.

I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I don't want to write the same thing over and over again.

There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.

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.

I'm not original, but I strive toward it as much as possible. I tried really hard on Weekend Update to do something that I considered original, which was, I tried to cut all cleverness out of the joke.