Quotes About Imagination

I want the kids to enjoy reading not only today but for the rest of their lives. I try to do all I can to show them the power of their imaginzations and to teach them that images on a movie screen pale by comparison with the pictures we can paint with our minds.

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I was figuring on dropping in on William Blake this afternoon

And yet he thought incense was made from the bones of saints, that leather continued to grow if not dyed, that if he concentrated hard enough his body's electrical currents could stun lake frogs as he bathed.

Your creativity has value. You're not wasting your time dreaming.

Your creativity has value. You are not wasting your time dreaming.

Make sure you take some animation classes, because animation is pure filmmaking. You don't have to deal with the actors.

It's a great time to be a creator. Trust your creativity.

Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.

Good books that often I would hate to finish because they took me into their lives and let me out of mine, for a while anyway.

Die unglaubliche Reise des Smithy Ide – Ron McLarty Lieblingszitat: "Lieber Smithy, das hier ist mein Brief an dich, aber ich werde ihn nicht abschicken. Ich schreibe am Fenster in meinem Zimmer, und das Fenster ist offen. Der Ahorn draußen in unserem Garten raschelt, und ich lasse es vom Wind zu dir tragen, denn er kann das, und ich glaube wirklich, dass Worte fliegen können." S. 249

My childhood may be over, but that doesn't mean playtime is.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

I look at my life today, the things I value most about myself—my imagination, my love of acting, my passion for writing, my love of learning, my curiosity—all come from how I was parented and taught. And none of these qualities that I've just mentioned—none of these qualities that I prize so deeply, that have brought me so much joy, that have brought me so much professional success—none of these qualities that make me who I am…can be tested.

Readers want to know a few things right up front, like what the weather is like and the lay of the land, the color of that lake, or the steep pitch of that steeple. Now whether or not these things have one iota to do with your story doesn't concern the reader.

Once you've sharpened your observation skills and taken notes about what you've seen, you need to create the little world in your mind where your story will take place. Because if it doesn't exist there, it won't stand a chance of existing in your reader's mind.

Readers want to know a few things right up front, like what the weather is like and the lay of the land, the color of that lake, or the steep pitch of that steeple.

An exchange student from Afghanistan "finds himself in the midst of America's circus of self-invention" as he experiences Halloween for the first time. His hosts bauble, "It's the greatest of holidays when you can become anything you want.

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.

See what is invisible and you will see what to write

She would be. If you asked her for her hymn-book she'd imagine it was being borrowed for some felonious purpose." Aurelia looked interested. "I don't see what one could do with a hymn-book," she exclaimed. Mrs. Wookie's nose grew long again. "Don't you?" she answered. "Neither do I.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." I

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

he spoke of what he called the "inner history of weakness, of what disappoints us in leaders, the timidity of thought, the hesitancy and the drift." In these cases imagination and will are often blinded by "constructed evils," he wrote. "We falter from childhood amidst shames and fears, we move in closed spaces where stale tradition enervates, we grow hysterical over success and failure, and so by surrounding instinct with terror, we prepare the soul for weakness.