Tig Notaro Quotes

I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think.

We must dare to think “unthinkable” thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about ‘unthinkable’ things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

We never have that thought! The whole object is to bite off more than you can chew. John [Du Prez] always says, Eric thinks of something completely insane and insists we go in that direction. It's the correct way to look at things and the correct place to start, I think.

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.

I like to laze around. I think that's a huge part of creativity. You have to let your mind relax and then another part of your brain suddenly connects with the solution you're trying to find.

I have my brain switched on and I might be thinking something else but we've come to an arrangement. That sort of play is maybe easier with someone who also thinks that way. But that is not necessarily a national thing, but maybe a little bit of a cultural thing.

The situations that have been the biggest wins for me have been because I was forced to think differently.

The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.

Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.

The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.

Nintendo's way is to challenge conventional thinking. Not just for the sake of doing things differently, but to do things better.

Rain on my head, call that brainstorming.

I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said, think different.

A crowd thinks in images, and the image itself calls up a series of other images, having no logical connection with the first...A crowd scarcely distinguishes between the subjective and the objective. It accepts as real the images invoked in its mind, though they most often have only a very distant relation with the observed facts....Crowds being only capable of thinking in images are only to be impressed by images.

You can't sit there and feel bad for yourself and say, "But, it's just not coming to me." That's an instinctual thing to do because that's the way the business normally works. But, when you've got a good brain on your shoulders, I think you can make it happen.

I think everyone is "racist," to differing degrees, in that everyone's brain will automatically associate information with other information, based on the information they are looking at, but I think focusing on race in any manner that isn't neutral or self-aware probably increases racism.

Think inside the work - outside the work

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

We can all do better. America is an entrepreneurial society. We had entrepreneurs who started our country. And they want us to think in fresh, new, different ways all of the time.

There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think.

There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.

Critiquing relieves you of the responsibility of doing integrative thinking.

Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.