Non-Traditional Methods Quotes

Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head?

When I left government, it appeared I could get some rather unusual things done from the inside.

I can only do music if I can do it the way I can do it.

People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading novels! I'm also a game writer who doesn't play games - I keep everything very separate. The only crossover with me is comics. I write them, and I read them passionately.

Half the stuff I have done which has been successful would never have been made if it had been shown to focus groups.

You have to have non-traditional ways of collaborating. But better is relative.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have had my own very definite ideas for a long time, very different from the existing ways, as to how architecture is to be taught.

I did not want to do things the way they are usually done in Hindi cinema.

Innovation is doing something in a different way, but it also has a subtext: When there's an established way, and that way is considered the best practice and how it's traditionally been done, innovation comes by and says 'Let's try a different approach.' It doesn't need to be big or company-wide - it could be a single thing.

Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has found new ways of expressing the world about him. I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don't think there's anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn't unusual - the Orientals did that.

My businesses are usually built around challenging conventional wisdom, so I tend to gain by taking the other side. It's been very profitable and entertaining for me

You know, I hate to borrow Apple's tag, but think different. Really. From the very beginning. I didn't know what the fast-food rules were. I got my training at the Culinary Institute Of America, and then I opened up a fast food place according to fine dining rules.

I have taken my outside-the-box, innovative, and sometimes unorthodox approach to Congress.

Innovation, creativity, and lunacy goes hand in hand.

None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.

I’m too hard-headed; nobody will ever vote for me. I’ll find another way to serve.

And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.

You don't need to do things in the typical way to get a beautiful result.

I hate studios. A studio is a black hole. I never use a studio to work. It's very artificial to go to a studio to get new ideas. You have to get new ideas from life, not from the studio. Then you go to the studio to realize the idea.

Strategy making needs to function beyond the boxes to encourage the informal learning that produces new perspectives and new combinations... Once managers understand this, they can avoid other costly misadventures caused by applying formal techniques, without judgement and intuition, to problem solving.

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.

Doing things outside of the traditional fashion gives me the opportunity to bring a fresh eye to unexpected markets.

Just because a coach does not get out the clubs after a match but instead focuses on what he says, that's not an indicator of cluelessness.

I'm probably most proud of the fact that we are bootstrapped and that we are able to do not just the typical Silicon Valley startup thing. We are basically throwing away all the typical conventions of other startups.