Hanya Yanagihara Quotes

...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

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.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

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.

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

I can see there's a connection between not following normal thinking and doing creative thinking. I wouldn't have had good scientific ideas if I had thought more normally.

I've done that my whole life - I've taken the way people think and turned it on its head.

I've always appreciated a creative approach to action, doing things that people don't expect, tweaking things to make them different.

The creative mind is intelligence in action in the world.

I don't care for the applause one gets by saying what others are thinking; I want actually to change people's thoughts. Power over people's minds is the main personal desire of my life; and this sort of power is not acquired by saying popular things.

If everybody thinks you're out of your mind, you just might be onto something.

There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.

You have to think outside the box.

Instead of thinking outside the box, get rid of the box.

Genius is the error in the system.

Do the things that make perfect sense to you, [and] don't be afraid to shout it from the mountain tops just because it's outside the box or against the grain in your industry. More often than not, you're probably going to be right.

The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

I feel the craziest people are sometimes the most intelligent.

The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.

He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing.

Creative people are often considered crazy but I believe crazy can be a good thing.

To use your head, you have to go out of your mind.