Quotes About Imagination

There's a catch to "combinatorial creativity," though. Before you can connect dots, you need to have dots to connect. The more material you're exposed to in the world, the more grist you'll have for your imagination mill.

His imagination was a factory with unlimited resources, and the world an exciting playground with unlimited possibilities.

takes curiosity to find your call to adventure, it takes courage to venture into the unknown, and it takes imagination to create your path. And to, like Tesla did, create it exactly as you envision it, no matter how much work it takes, or how many people try to stop you.

takes curiosity to find your call to adventure, it takes courage to venture into the unknown, and it takes imagination to create your path.

genius answers those questions audaciously and lavishly. She dares to imagine everything and anything as possible, and carries our culture to worlds that never were. You can do the same.

Marcus Aurelius once said that a person's life is "dyed with the color of his imagination.

The Great Mystery of Genius

A creative genius is just better at connecting the dots than others are. That's

Nikola Tesla Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century

Don't confuse creativity and imagination with "thinking" either. Ray Bradbury said that thinking is the enemy of creativity because it's self-conscious. When you think you sit calmly and try to reason through something in a structured, logical way. Creativity dances to a different tune.

You never know where your imagination will find pieces for its puzzles.

creativity is a process, not a providence.

Tesla was never one to chase recognition—he was after the pure thrill of discovery and creation. His imagination was a factory with unlimited resources, and the world an exciting playground with unlimited possibilities. He was excited to see men like Rontgen pioneer new fields of understanding, and was happy that his work contributed to the rise of other great men.

Most of us regard creativity in the same way we regard that statement—as a mysterious gift that can't be explained or cultivated. But we're wrong. Like genius itself, creativity is a process, not a providence. The

thinking is the enemy of creativity because it's self-conscious.

Like genius itself, creativity is a process, not a providence.

Like genius itself, creativity is a process, not a providence. The

What is imagination, though? Michelangelo said he saw angels in the marble and carved until he set them free. Most of us regard creativity in the same way we regard that statement—as a mysterious gift that can't be explained or cultivated. But we're wrong. Like genius itself, creativity is a process, not a providence.

In his new Manhattan lab, funded meagerly by friends, Tesla's wondrous imagination led him to research the resonant frequencies

Don't confuse creativity and imagination with "thinking" either. Ray Bradbury said that thinking is the enemy of creativity because it's self-conscious.

The more varied your knowledge and experiences are, the more likely you are to be able to create new associations and fresh ideas.

An unexpected dead end in one journey is merely an opportunity to set a new course for another. Losing what we have can only do us real harm when we feel we can't create it, or something equally valuable or compelling, again, and that ability resides squarely in our imagination.

There's a catch to "combinatorial creativity," though. Before you can connect dots, you need to have dots to connect. The more material you're exposed to in the world, the more grist you'll have for your imagination mill. Tesla fully immersed himself in the world of electricity. He read hundreds of books. He conducted thousands of experiments and took copious notes. The more varied your knowledge and experiences are, the more lik

can connect dots, you need to have dots to connect. The more material you're exposed to in the world, the more grist you'll have for your imagination mill. Tesla fully immersed himself in the world of electricity. He read hundreds of books. He conducted thousands of experiments and took copious notes. The more varied your knowledge and experiences are, the more like