Paddy McGuinness Quotes

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

I think a lot of people in their average day actually imagine two sides of a conversation at one point or another. I think that the mental trick of holding two sides of a conversation in your head is actually something that we all do.

The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.

If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.

Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.

Nobody can ever pin you down when you speculate.

I guess we guess our way through life. How many times do we really know for sure?

Each book develops a strong organic shape. And when that shape is complete, the book is complete. I don't know where the end is. I don't start at the beginning. It's like playing Tetris in my head in a very slow kind of way. All the shapes join up.

I can do some of the number puzzles.

Every game gives you a new challenge, and new problems to solve.

Your mind is just constantly moving, thinking of different scenarios, not only on your team but their team too, trying to figure out things they are doing.

Writing is sort of like chess for me. You have to think carefully before you move, thinking, planning.

When I'm problem-solving with something, I have, effectively, a CAD program in my head that's like a room that has specific qualities to it that I go to some deal of effort to populate. Textures and smells, something like that.

Sometimes I turn the TV just below where you can hear it and write down what I think they might be saying by the mumbles and rhythms.

I learned a lot. I really did. Millennium is a state of mind. I always thought of Frank Black as the greatest chess player that could take random pieces of information and string them together into a scenario that was accurate. I never thought of him as a psychic at all. We need people like that.

Let's throw it on the wall and see if it sticks.

Creativity is just connecting things.

If the unusual never happened there would be no difference in people and then there wouldn't be any fun in life. The game would become merely a matter of addition and subtraction. It would make of us a race of bookkeepers with plodding minds. It's the guessing that develops a man's brain power.

[My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try to think of new problems to solve. I took his advice very seriously and have been glad ever since that he did.

Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.

Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.

There is nothing like chess to keep the brain smart, and give it a workout.

An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead