Heraclitus Quotes

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.

It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

A lot of people get really stuck in this idea that everything's been done and there's nowhere left to go.

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

I like the unknown. That's what Terry Malick has always really liked. He's always looking for the unexpected.

Sometimes you just can't be afraid to wear a different hat. If Columbus had complied, this whole world might still be flat.

I suppose each project is a new thing, so there's all this excitement and nerves about this new thing. Every single thing is like a new thing, so it's never what I expect. I don't know what to expect for the next thing. There are always different people. It's interesting.

I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

I would like the work to be non-work. This means that it would find its way beyond my preconceptions...It is the unknown quantity from which and where I want to go. As a thing, an object, it accedes to its non-logical self. It is something, it is nothing.

Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really know what we are doing.

If you don't have a vision you're going to be stuck in what you know. And the only thing you know is what you've already seen.

What is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own feet have worn. You must make tracks into the Unknown.

We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.

Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before.

This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.

We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture awash with the imbecile obvious, our existence suffocating in safety. But mysteries remain.

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.

There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

Steve Jobs was Galileo in a past life. Discovery was instinctual for him.