Brandon Victor Dixon Quotes

To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.

I can see there's a connection between not following normal thinking and doing creative thinking. I wouldn't have had good scientific ideas if I had thought more normally.

Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.

I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.

You need to be imagining all the time, imagining yourself outside the walls of your own skull.

The idea is to be unrestrained by categories.

I always have a different way of looking at things.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

I think a lot of the best ideas come from the grassroots; I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink.

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

What I often do is just think of a completely obtuse thing to do, almost the wrong thing to do. That often works because you start a different approach, something no one has tried.

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know.

I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

If the only ideas you had were your own, you'd be very limited.

I try not to think small minded.