Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

If everybody thinks you're out of your mind, you just might be onto something.

You have to think outside the box.

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

Some of the best ideas come sort of out of nowhere and when you're not expecting it.

To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

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

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

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.

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

I never liked to copy things that are out there. I always like to come up with something new, something different.

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

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

I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.

The bad thing about young people starting a company is that sometimes they do it for the wrong reasons or because they have the wrong skill set, but the good thing is that they don't have any of the old paradigms baked into them, so they have a lot of the bright new ideas that are harder to come by as you get older.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you've got to get away from the norm. You've got to go for it.

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

We can't get any new thinking because we can't get any new thinkers.

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 day before something is a breakthrough, it is a crazy idea.

It's all about evolution and for us, we try to think outside the box and not try to duplicate what we've done in the past.

Just finding ways to be not provocative for provocative's sake, but to show an idea that hasn't been shown before, I mean that's interesting to me.

Sometimes a crazy idea can make something special.