Edi Rama Quotes

Teenagers come to things fresh and can really teach us an awful lot.

Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.

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

If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.

Agents and publishers are always looking for something 'different,' a fresh viewpoint and a new voice, not just re-hashed versions of stuff that's gone before.

Whether that's in communications or marketing or strategy, you need people to come in with a fresh perspective.

What might we learn from lines of research that are off the beaten track? They check accepted ideas, always a good thing, and there is the chance nature has prepared yet another surprise for us.

Having a range of perspectives allows you to tell stories through a different lens and approach things from fresh angles. If you're straining everything through the same filter, you're always going to wind up with the same product.

Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

I live by the business model that there is a better than, a less than, or a different than. Those are the three categories. I chose to be different than. The one that's different than will stand out with the proper work ethic.

Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.

It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound.

Katie Grand often comes in from a very different angle than what I've been thinking about. And that really gives it that extra something, because designers can often get stuck in their own view of how the collection can look. I always love the way that she turns it into something else and I kind of let go at that point.

When you think outside of what you know, that brings out the best in you.

The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but ones that are different because the individual is different and the individual expresses himself.

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.

You know, I hate to borrow Apple's tag, but think different. Really. From the very beginning. I didn't know what the fast-food rules were. I got my training at the Culinary Institute Of America, and then I opened up a fast food place according to fine dining rules.

The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his predecessor, the refuse of contempt, or the omissions of negligence.

I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.