will.i.am Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

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.

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.

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

We're always looking for candidates that have new approaches to problems.

I believe in being completely open to the most unlikely explanation.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

My approach to creating content is focused on pulling people out of their intellectual comfort zones. I'm interested in presenting ideas in unique ways that challenge people to question their assumptions.

I like being forced to think about things in a different way.

Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life's metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic.

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.

I refused to accept anything, doubted everything. So, doubting everything, I had to find something that had not existed before, something I had not thought of before. Any idea that came to me, the thing would be to turn it around and try to see it with another set of senses.

I want to find material that piques my interest, keeps me outside the box and challenges me.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

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.

In any industry, the people with the freshest ideas usually come from outside.

Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.

Actually, I think I come at things a whole different way from most people, and, you know, sometimes political answers are one way to solve the problem, and sometimes there are better ways to do it.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

Thinking differently is my strength.