Javier Hernandez Quotes

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

Since I know how crazy this business is, I do the opposite of what I see other people doing.

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.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

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.

Those who ultimately shake up an industry are often outsiders who don't know any better.

It never occurred to me that artists, of all people, have to be reminded that instinct is more important than tradition, but in our industry, people seem to forget that sometimes.

The one lesson I've learned from technology and food is the only time you know you're doing the wrong thing is when you're doing what everyone else is doing.

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

There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

I'm not someone who calculates things.

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

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.

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book. My old man used to flip out whenever I would try to branch out and do something different. Although he didn't do it on purpose, he really held me back in the beginning.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Throughout my entire life, I constantly tried to fight normality. I hate it. I hate the idea of it. I hate routine. I hate anything that feels remotely regular or right.

You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

I like being unconventional.

I don't like the idea of fitting into a mould so as to conform. What I like is the danger, the difference - being unpredictable.

I am a contrarian.

I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.