Quotes About Imagination

On that day, the library was transformed from a confusing and intimidating collection of books into a thousand different portals through time and space to fantastic worlds for me to explore.*

Hey, as long as you're not moving the story forward at all, why not have a pod race?

Sometimes, the Best Adventures are the Ones We can only Dream about.

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

Just around the corner in every woman's mind - is a lovely dress, a wonderful suit, or entire costume which will make an enchanting new creature of her.

Bazen bana aniden bask?n yapan a??r? duyarl?l?ktan öldü?ümü hayal ediyorum. O zaman bir acil doktor ko?up gelir, yapabilece?i tek ?ey öldü?ümü tespit etmek olurdu. Ölüm sebebi olarak da ?unu yazard? ölüm raporuna: A??r? duyarl?l?k.

?nsanlar elimizdeki özgürlü?ün, harekete geçme de?il, sadece konu?ma ve hayal kurma özgürlü?ü oldu?unun fark?nda de?il.

In the end, all that a writer has to pass on is not myth and anecdote, but scene and character, evoked in memorable prose.

I can even hear the sun. It sounds like a jet taking off in the middle of the night.

Anything you can imagine is probably true. And the worst you can imagine is probably worth money.

Reality is in the business of killing off fiction.

It is really surprising what may be done in the home with a small can of paint, if you aren't careful.

The premortem has two main advantages: it overcomes the groupthink that affects many teams once a decision appears to have been made, and it unleashes the imagination of knowledgeable individuals in a much-needed direction.

El mundo que imaginamos no es una réplica precisa de la realidad; nuestras expectativas sobre la frecuencia de los acontecimientos están distorsionadas por la prevalencia y la intensidad emocional de los mensajes que nos llegan.

The photographer does not view the scene as a moment to be savored but as a future memory to be designed. Pictures

Jumping to conclusions is a safer sport in the world of our imagination than it is in reality. Statistics

System 1 runs ahead of the facts in constructing a rich image on the basis of scraps of evidence.

You may know that there is really (almost) nothing to worry about, but you cannot help images of disaster from coming to mind.

We hold a single interpretation of the world around us at any one time, and we normally invest little effort in generating plausible alternatives to it. One interpretation is enough, and we experience it as true. We do not go through life imagining alternative ways of seeing what we see.

The premise of the session is a short speech: "Imagine that we are a year into the future. We implemented the plan as it now exists. The outcome was a disaster. Please take 5 to 10 minutes to write a brief history of that disaster.

The exaggerated faith in small samples is only one example of a more general illusion—we pay more attention to the content of messages than to information about their reliability, and as a result end up with a view of the world around us that is simpler and more coherent than the data justify. Jumping to conclusions is a safer sport in the world of our imagination than it is in reality.

The failures of forecasting in these cases reflect the customers' inability to imagine how much their wishes will escalate over time. They end up paying much more than they would if they had made a realistic plan and stuck to it.

El mundo que imaginamos no es una réplica precisa de la realidad;

what people acquire with a ticket is more than a chance to win; it is the right to dream pleasantly of winning.