Ken Stott Quotes

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

I think being a little nuts is helpful.

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.

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.

Always listen to experts. They will tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.

Jay-Z has kind of shown that you can get to the very top without waiting, without following rules. In fact, it's better if you don't. People will admire you more if you break the rules.

I don't come up with ideas in a test tube; I come up with ideas by breaking test tubes. That's how I've always been.

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

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.

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

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.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

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.

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

I only want people around me who can do the impossible.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

What I often do is just think of a completely obtuse thing to do, almost the wrong thing to do. That often works because you start a different approach, something no one has tried.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

I've always found ways to bend the rules.

To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.

Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.

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