Iain Stirling 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.

I absolutely loved working with Tim Burton because he is just a creative, outside of the box thinker. How he does things is fantastic. It is different - weird different - and he does things that are groundbreaking. They are courageous to do and once you do them you are like, 'Wow! That really does work!'

Men of genius are not be analyzed by commonplace rules.

The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.

Paul Cummins is a genius. He's a true visionary.

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

I love to create magic - to put something together that's so unusual, so unexpected that it blows people's heads off. Something ahead of the times. Five steps ahead of what people are thinking.

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

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

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.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

I'm allergic to doing the obvious thing.

I like people who can see what other people can't yet imagine.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Don't follow trends, start trends.

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

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.

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

My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.

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.

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.

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.

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

We have to think big. We have to imagine big, and that's part of the problem. We're letting other people imagine and lead us down what paths they want to take us. Sometimes they're very limited in the way their ideas are constructed. We need to imagine much more broadly. That's the work of a writer, and more writers should look at it.