Sacha Dhawan Quotes

You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.

Young people don't even consider that it's a good idea to be out on the fringe, which is where good ideas come from.

The only people who get paid what they're worth are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are innovative, who work without a map.

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.

This sounds really craven on some level, but on some level, a lot of what I'm doing is trying to not do a typical TV show.

We've never tried to fit any mould because we already broke the one we started.

For me, prog rock has always been essentially British. It combines all our great and eccentric genius. We are not hung up on categories, rules and classification. We love people who break the mould, challenge us and make us think differently.

I'm trying to do different music, and I'm trying to be out of the box.

What people don't realize is that when you start making things outside of the convention of what is normal or good or 'best practices,' you're also shedding some of the baggage that comes with the concept of what a game 'should' be.

In many ways, being yourself is dispelling stereotypes.

Some people have iconic directors in their mind, or they want to make particular styles of films they have seen before. I think this is a waste of time and energy.

I like crossing the imaginary boundaries people set up between different fields - it's very refreshing.

If you want people to think out of the box, you shouldn't create the box in the first place.

I've always been interested in kind of doing the thing that you weren't necessarily recommended to do.

I'm a little unconventional; I do things a little differently.

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.

I've done that my whole life - I've taken the way people think and turned it on its head.

I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.

You may confuse a lot of people when going against the grain of conventional thinking, and that's perfectly okay. As an entrepreneur, standing up for your vision to your family and friends might possibly be the best practice you will get for the life that awaits you.

You can have an idea that everyone else thinks is dumb, and it's still a good idea.

My parents broke many rules, so I guess thinking 'outside the box' has been slowly but surely developing in my family - one generation to the next.

It is difficult to be that band that doesn't do things the way other bands do it. It's a blessing and a curse.

I don't think there's anything traditional about me.

We are a little out of the box.

I've always tried to do things a little bit before they were being done by the mainstream. I challenge myself to do that in stand-up also, to talk about things that I'm not hearing anybody talk about onstage and in the media.