Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Most people don't grab the right ideas or don't know what to do with them.

I can't solve a puzzle for the life of me - my brain doesn't work that way. But I can take a very simple idea and extrapolate from it and spend time with it and pull things out of it.

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

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

Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

My brain is open.

I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts.

My father once told me that I have a mind like a lint trap - I pull stuff out of everything, and a lot of it just clings.

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

Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop.

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

Whatever man does he must do first in his mind.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself.