Hanya Yanagihara Quotes

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

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.

Yes, I think I am a genius, but not a rebel.

To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

I can see there's a connection between not following normal thinking and doing creative thinking. I wouldn't have had good scientific ideas if I had thought more normally.

I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.

I've always been blown away by how unique Brian Limond's mind is.

I've always known that I have a different mentality. I can move in different ways and that's for people to realize.

...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.

It's important to have people who will say to you that you're really off the beaten track.

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

The truly creative people tend to be outliers.