Ursus Wehrli Quotes

I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.

If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look like from underneath the table?

I just can't help but see things differently.

I always have a different way of looking at things.

Filmmakers have to really find a unique take on something if they're going to explore an already-explored genre of movies.

What makes me laugh about politics, sometimes, is it seems like once we get to a point where our problems are seemingly unsolvable, it's because we're looking through a wrong point of view. If we turn the thing on its head, then maybe we might see it differently.

If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'

I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.

One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far.

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

I think having an outsider's viewpoint is interesting and good, especially for a comedian.

An outsider's point of view is always handy.

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

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

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 look at this game from a different perspective.

Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The 'smart' people don't.

The best way to renew thought is to go outside the human imagination.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

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

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.

The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.

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.

Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.

I don't think in a box. I think in a sphere.