Robert Schumann Quotes

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

Because we are four creative people - four writers - there was no way that we were ever going to be satiated doing the same thing over and again. Change was inevitable for us. And a very natural thing.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.

Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.

I always tend to favor the newer idea.

Imagine something new, or you will only go where you have been.

Progress only happens with change, and people love something different.

Don't let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do.

It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thrivenon the changes and chances, the dislocations andcontrasts which have made up so much of my life.

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.

We are not here to do what has already been done.

We all know that change is inevitable. It provides us with a challenge and an opportunity to grow and improve and to attract new members with new ideas.

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

It's a new game now, you know, you have to bring some fresh stuff.

We need to look to the future. You can't come up with new things unless you constantly forget the past. There's no reason to keep wearing the same pair of pants.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

I will always look for things that are different from the last thing I played.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored very easily, so I like to make things interesting for myself.