Unconventional Approach Quotes

I don't know, I really try not to pay attention to comparisons, 'cause I'm my own artist. I try to build my own sound.

Don’t just follow the trend. You may have heard me say that it’s good to think in terms of the physics approach of first principles. Which is, rather than reasoning by analogy, you boil things down to the most fundamental truths you can imagine and you reason up from there.

I do think, with people in comedy, you can have your time, as it were, and then you don't realise that it might have gone. I hope it hasn't for me. I think what I do is, I just... I just try to plough my own furrow, in a way.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.

People say it’s a radical proposal. Well, I think to have the current situation is what is radical. No other country has anything like it.

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

I would always rather shoot for something unique and fail than do a script because I feel like they're hitting all the right mainstream beats.

The one thing I try and do, when people say, 'What kind of movies do you guys look for,' the one thing I look for is 'different.' And I think that's very antithetical to Hollywood.

Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

I act irrationally, I defy the odds, I engage when others would run. I look for trouble, I seek chaos, it is a burden.

Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering.

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty.

Let's say I've directed that [writing] energy into writing my latest book but suddenly, I really want to write about an onion. I don't say to myself, "No, you have stay on the subject," because I know that the longer I stay on the subject the more boring I get. So, if my mind wants to write about an onion, it might be a deeper way to go into what I'm working on, even though it might seem irrelevant. This is how I've learned to follow my mind.

It doesn't make any sense... that's why I trust it!

I like the idea of, not shocking people, but just throwing people off. Doing something that makes people go, 'Whoa, whoa, she did that next? Wow, didn't think she was gonna do something like that next.'

Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

I don't follow the rules. That's kind of how I do everything.

It was a crazy idea. But, as usual, that’s all Percy had.

We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.

Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.

Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.

It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.