Quotes About Imagination

Our hearts and imaginations need to dance and play if we are to live awake

There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having the ability to fuse the two.

Most of the time it may seem like I'm staring into nothingness, but there's a whole world playing out in my head.

Without imagination, there would be no creativity. Without creativity, there would be nothing.

I refuse to settle for what you call reality.

We are human because we can fantasize.

Dual Representational Theory. Stated formally, it describes our ability to attribute characteristics and meanings to things that don't actually possess them.

an amazing 27-minute animated short called Donald in Mathmagic Land.

prolific inventor,

Truth: The greatest pediatric brain-boosting technology in the world is probably a plain cardboard box, a fresh box of crayons, and two hours. The worst is probably your new flat-screen TV. (See "Hurray for play!" on page 129.)

Google takes to heart the power of exploration. For 20 percent of their time, employees may go where their mind asks them to go. The proof is in the bottom line: Fully 50 percent of new products, including Gmail and Google News, came from "20 percent time.

Both beliefs take the temporary habits of an age of excess and treat them as necessities, and both of them box our collective imagination into a futile quest to sustain the unsustainable instead of looking at the real alternative to the extravagant use of fossil fuels.

Consider the way that so many people nowadays use the word "imaginary" to mean "unreal." In actuality, of course, what we imagine is real in its own way, and it can be powerful and important as well.

These my sky-robes, spun out of Iris' woof.

A thousand fantasiesBegin to throng into my memory,Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire,And airy tongues that syllable men's namesOn sands and shores and desert wildernesses.

Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.

Methought I saw my late espoused saintBrought to me like Alcestis from the grave.

A poet soaring in the high region of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.

What never yet was heard in tale or song,From old or modern bard, in hall or bower.

And every shepherd tells his taleUnder the hawthorn in the dale.

Physics is imagination in a straight jacket.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.

Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to the shimmering red presence in the clear night sky...