I think it's great that these little various skills I have seem to add up to something, because I'm not the greatest pianist or the greatest vocalist or the greatest actor. Tim Minchin More Quotes by Tim Minchin More Quotes From Tim Minchin It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours. Tim Minchin exciting-things meaningless-life exciting We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love. Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire. Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff. Tim Minchin passion love-is giving Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room, I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there. Tim Minchin cat powerful graduation To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are. Tim Minchin waste dream inspirational Science adjusts its views based on what's observed Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved. Tim Minchin denial honesty views A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one. There is great wisdom in this... but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined.We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs. Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat.... Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege. Tim Minchin bats ideas thinking Love without evidence is stalking. Tim Minchin stalking evidence If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able to show either empirically or logically the existence of a higher power with any consciousness or interest in the human race or ability to punish or reward humans for their moral choices or that there is any reason other than fear to believe in any version of an afterlife, I will give you my piano, one of my legs and my wife. Tim Minchin race spiritual believe Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world? How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters? Tim Minchin attention beautiful men Please don't make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid and damaging idea. You don't have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things... science is not a body of knowledge or a belief system, it is just a term that describes humankind's incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated. Tim Minchin stupid beautiful art The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life. Tim Minchin yoga-mats yoga Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome. Tim Minchin acquisition understanding body It's the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days Tim Minchin fine balance alcohol Define yourself by what you love. Tim Minchin define-yourself what-you-love You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine. Tim Minchin natural-healing medicine alternatives I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me Tim Minchin bad-word hate body A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience Tim Minchin audience genius ill Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic. Tim Minchin magic mystery Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually. Tim Minchin intuitive empathy entrepreneur Who's the world going to revolve around now? Tim Minchin world
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