Quotes About Imagination

The first thing you start with when you're trying to write something funny is it has to - it really has to come to you first. I has to be an idea that you have that first makes you laugh, that strikes you as funny.

When we were first writing 'Stranger Things,' the first thing we wrote was that Dungeons & Dragons scene. And we wrote it in about two minutes. It just poured out of us because it was so close to us.

The first thing I remember writing was a poem - about a princess who sat on a hill and sang all day - when I was eight.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

The history of science and culture is filled with stories of how many of the greatest scientific and artistic discoveries occurred while the creator was not thinking about what he was working on, not consciously anyway - the daydreaming mode solved the problem for him, and the answer appeared suddenly as a stroke of insight.

The history of the past, a hundred years from now, won't be the history of the past that we learned in school because much more will have been revealed, and adjectives we can't even imagine will have been brought to bear on what we did learn in school.

I just couldn't do a comedy show about 'The History Of Dinosaurs;' I'd get bored too easily.

The history of Guitar Hero is pretty spectacular. Really, I don't know of another franchise that has captured the imagination of the world so quickly and so powerfully and so positively in such a short period of time.

Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want - freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.

Who I am as an architect and the history of my work - that's clear to anybody who hires me. But I come in literally with nothing in my brain about what the building will look like.

There's nothing more liberating about starting with something that is not written. You pretty much create the history of that character and that character's life story.

One of the most important things in the digital world is being able to story-tell and help people envision the art of the possible with respect to different technologies.

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

Whatever I'm thinking about has got to fit into thirty-two pages, the standard picture book size. So that's something. But the structure and the form for me are almost the most important, because these will express as much as words and images will the content of the work.

I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.

I really believe that you could do horror very inexpensively. I don't think it has anything to do with the effects, the effects are not the most important parts.

The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that.

Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script.

The one thing I had pure in my life was creativity.

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.

The one thing that makes writing a better pastime than reading is that you can make things turn out the way you want in the end!

For me, the one thing I've got going for me in terms of my attributes as a musician is vision.

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.