Waris Ahluwalia Quotes

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

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

I just try to go outside the box. In fact, I go outside the box so much I go... 'What box!'

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

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

I've always had my own opinions and have always been somebody who thinks outside the box.

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

I think being a little nuts is helpful.

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.

I've got a feeling that with the best coppers - and in fact the best people in any field of work - what sets them apart is a maverick quality. People who are not afraid to bend the rules in order to achieve the universally desired end.

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

The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

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

To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

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.

I'm a very outside-the-box kind of guy.

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

Artists and scientists both think outside the box. They've got to come with genius experiments or ideas to expose the most interesting phenomena.

If I start playing by the rules, I will inhibit myself of the possibilities that lie beyond. I don't like to be framed or given borders to operate in or curtail my thought process and as a writer it's not only my choice but also my need to go beyond the given framework.