Fred Wilson Quotes

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.

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

Thinking differently is my strength.

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.

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

I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.

I don't think in a box. I think in a sphere.

I've always known that I have a different mentality. I can move in different ways and that's for people to realize.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

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.

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.

I'd like to be known as the person who saw things from a different point of view to others.

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

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think.

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

I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

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.

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

I always have a different way of looking at things.

Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale.

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.

Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much.

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.

It's important to have people who will say to you that you're really off the beaten track.