Deepak Chopra Quotes

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've always found ways to bend the rules.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

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.

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.

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.

I like to think limitlessly, and you can't be limitless if you're constantly looking at best practices.

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

It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original if you're too well behaved and don't want to break the rules. You have to think outside the box. That's what I believe. After all, what is the point of being on this earth if all you want to do is be liked by everyone and avoid trouble?

Do the things that make perfect sense to you, [and] don't be afraid to shout it from the mountain tops just because it's outside the box or against the grain in your industry. More often than not, you're probably going to be right.

The big characters who occupy science, especially modern science, are all "off" in fundamental ways. 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. I wanted to pay tribute to that mind.

I don't really put too much emphasis on what somebody else might think of it. Otherwise your putting limits on yourself.

Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist.

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

I think there's something important in going against the grain and perhaps finding value in things that aren't necessarily institutionally recognized.

One of my favorite teachers is Osho, mainly because he liked to push people's buttons just to get them to think and live outside of their comfort zone.

I wanted to go so I could learn the rules and conventions in order to break them later on.

We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.

Bohemia isn't somewhere an artist runs to escape society. It's a place where like-minded artists gather to plot the downfall of dogma and ignorance.

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

All of my films have been very hard to understand at the script stage because they're very different. At the time I did them they were not conventional. The executives could only think in terms of what they'd already seen. It's hard for them to think in terms of what has never been done before.

I march to a different drummer, whose location, identity, and musical training haven't yet been established.

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

Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities. Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.

Sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable. I remember at the very beginning actually, the first person I had to convince was myself really because there's a self-censorship. When everybody says 'we don't do silent movies anymore,' you agree with everybody, and you say 'yeah, you're right.' It was a fantasy.