Unorthodox Approach Quotes

Genius is often called crazy, but crazy is never called genius. So you just have to put out the work and let the chips fall where they may.

Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

I'm hoping that "Nothin' On You", "Billionaire" and "Just The Way You Are" - songs that I produced... I hope that it's a warning for people. I hope it lets them know that I'm a little unorthodox when it comes to genres and styles.

If you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinking what they have been taught to think.

I have made a career of bumbling around places, stumbling on landmarks and generally being quite haphazard and shambolic about the way I go about things.

The disobedient child is continuously condemned. The obedient child is, on the other hand, continuously praised. But have you heard of any obedient child having become world-famous in any dimension of creativity? Have you heard of any obedient child who has attained the Nobel prize for anything - literature, peace, science? The obedient child becomes just the common crowd. All that is added to existence is added by the disobedient.

The unusual wins out over the usual.

I like to think that I'm a populist entertainer, but I'm a little bit idiosyncratic, and sometimes the networks wouldn't really roll with that.

If everyone is defining a problem or solving it one way and the results are subpar, this is the time to ask, What if I did the opposite? Don't follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

To be really great and interesting, you have to be a little crazy. I just don't think one comes without the other.

Eccentricity gives misfits a way of fitting in.

In classic Trump fashion, the president is pursuing a reasonable idea in the most jarring manner possible.

... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he guarantees you nothing but amusement. He does not guarantee you any of the little amenities by which society has assured itself that, if it must go to sleep, it will at least sleep in a comfortable chair.

In order to be truly great at something you have to give into a certain amount of madness.

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

I try to take normal things - whether it's a serious subject or something as obscure as a piece of toast - and put a very weird twist on them.

Donald Trump was a very unconventional candidate. He's going to be an unconventional president.

I think I live life really spontaneously. That drives people crazy.

You want to sound crazy, but you want to actually be right.

I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it. I yelled 'Action!' on my first two movies before the camera was turned on.

I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.

Hunter S. Thompson brings a lunatic genius to ordinary events, and I bring an ordinary sensibility to lunatic events.

Donald Trump figured out that the campaign for a moderate presidency is different than it's been in the past. He didn't put together a traditional campaign.

Genius is insanity right up until it works.