Shigeru Miyamoto Quotes

Thinking differently is my strength.

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

To think is to differ.

Actually, I think I come at things a whole different way from most people, and, you know, sometimes political answers are one way to solve the problem, and sometimes there are better ways to do it.

I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink.

I've always had my own opinions and have always been somebody who thinks outside the box.

It's important to have people who are absolutely willing to say you're wrong or who have a totally different perspective than you do on everything. Fresh ideas are hard to come by, and good ones are even harder.

Human beings never think for themselves. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

The truly creative people tend to be outliers.

I have this natural want to... when things sound very easy and straightforward, something inside me always makes me want to take a left turn. If it comes to me and it's too simple, there has to be a more complicated route. I will complicate things like that at times.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.

We're not all supposed to think alike.

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.

I am not interested in telling you what to think. My job is to show you what I think. Period.

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

I always tend to think just left of center, to remove myself from the world by one step. It is very freeing, and it's a particular way of coming at stories and looking at them that I find the most beautiful stuff that I know comes from, ultimately.

A thinking man can never be a party man.

Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society…

The 21st century does not like tidy minds.

My point of view has always been a bit more offbeat.

I loved the army, but it didn't really love me. I used to get into trouble because I thought outside the square.

I find it fascinating that you can look at the same problem from different perspectives and approach it using different methods.

Crazy may not be the one who says the sun is the center of the solar system, the Earth is round, and someday people might fly. It may be those who laugh at such words whose minds are lost.