Eric Idle Quotes

Any idea can be a great idea if you think differently, dream big and commit to seeing it realized

In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom.

Try to achieve the impossible and direct your people to ways of achieving it.

Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.

There is something more important than logic: imagination

You know, when you look carefully at stuff that you deal with everyday, applying a little creativity to it and thinking outside the box, it's amazing what you can do.

Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside rather than submitting to the limitations of current dilemmas

The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.

If everybody thinks you're out of your mind, you just might be onto something.

You have to think outside the box.

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

The best way to get people to think outside the box is not to create the box in the first place.

The situations that have been the biggest wins for me have been because I was forced to think differently.

If you deeply appreciate and love what creative people do and how they think, which is usually in unpredictable and irrational ways, then you can start to understand them. And finally, you can see inside their minds and DNA.

My thinking is very flexible, and I hope that it will remain flexible and creative as long as biology permits me to think and that I will remain a rebel all my life.

Dream, diversify-and never miss an angle.

I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said, think different.

What makes things exciting in life is to overcome your challenges and get creative and think outside of the box.

Some of the best inventive moments are born out of 'wrong thinking'. Most people start with the right way so they all follow the same path. The wrong way will lead to mistakes from which you can learn and create new discoveries-the kind of original ideas that come to life when we dare to be different, keep an open mind, and have no fear of failure.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

All you need is your own imagination. So use it that's what it's for.

Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.

The minute someone says 'Oh God, you could never do that; you can't get that kind of stuff on the air'...that's the kind of stuff I want to do.