Newt Gingrich Quotes

Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.

I think being a little nuts is helpful.

It's no secret that my process is a little bit loose and can be a little bit infuriating to a studio if they don't know what they're signing up for.

I have this natural want to... when things sound very easy and straightforward, something inside me always makes me want to take a left turn. If it comes to me and it's too simple, there has to be a more complicated route. I will complicate things like that at times.

Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The 'smart' people don't.

I am not a consensus politician... This is something that is really very un-Dutch.

I've realised that if I aim for a successful record, I probably won't have any success. But if I keep making weird things, then hopefully the audiences will come to us.

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, 'doesn't play well with others.'

Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands... Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection.

I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

I love paradox. I like to go where people don't expect me to go.

I never finished the 'Large Glass' because, after working on it for eight years, I probably got interested in something else; also, I was tired. It may be that, subconsciously, I never intended to finish it because the word 'finish' implies an acceptance of traditional methods and all the paraphernalia that accompany them.

Counterintuitive action makes a fellow feel smart.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.

To rally every black sheep is my goal.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

There is something inherently valuable about being a misfit. It's not to say that every person who has artistic talent was a social outcast, but there is definitely a value for identifying yourself differently and being proud that you are different.

I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.

It's the irrational things that interest me.

There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.

Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.

I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.