Quotes About Imagination

if you were faced with something that appeared impossible, it just meant you were not looking at all of the possibilities.

I've always considered them ideas, forever recorded." Malone motioned to one of the paperbacks. "Malory wrote King Arthur in the late part of the 15th century. So you're reading his thoughts from five hundred years ago. We'll never know Malory, but we know his imagination.

Worry is not true thought. Worry is a misuse of the imagination.

Think up some stories about who you would like to be. Soon you will begin to create the necessary blueprint for stretching your accomplishments. Without a picture of your highest self, you can't live into that self. Fake it 'till you make it. The lie will become the truth.

Most people are reluctant to see themselves as being creative because they associate creativity with complexity. But creativity is simplicity.

we ourselves do that each day. We use our crayons (our imagination) to scare ourselves instead of to create.

Objects in the mirror of the future appear larger than they really are.

A dream's only a memory of the future, right?

The issues of what a self is, how long it will last, what will happen when our bodies decay and consciousness flickers off, are all based not on what we actually see but on what we imagine.

Ignorance is not the inability to see, but the act of ignoring what is really going on in favour of what we imagine.

Never, ever stop believing in magic, no matter how old you get. Because if you keep looking long enough and don't give up, sooner or later you're going to find Mary Poppins.

A library is a fueling station for your mind.

Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies. Steve Martin

I have found that-- just as in real life--imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.

You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.

If you occasionally wonder how I know about some of the events I describe in this book, I don't. I have found that--just as in real life--imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.

An artist who painted a face was now 'playing with the idea of portraiture,' or 'exploring push-pull aesthetics,' or toying with contradictions like 'menacing-slash-playful,' but he or she was never, ever, just painting a face.

The Feynman Dilemma A diner says to a waiter, "What's this fly doing in my soup?" And the waiter says, "It looks like the backstroke." Yet if the same scene is viewed while plunging into a black hole at the speed of light, it will look like a Mickey Mouse lunch pail from the thirties, except that Mickey's head has been replaced by a Lincoln penny

Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.   AT

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

The most memorable home videos and docs tell stories. Those stories don't just magically appear in the edit room. You have to imagine them before you start shooting.

Ooh ho!" he says. "In such a small boat? Tonto!" Fool. "It's not so small, it's my whole house." The old man gestures toward his lower abdomen with cupped hands as if holding gigantic organs. We laugh at his joke as I shake my head no, open my eyes wide, and shiver as if frightened.

Just because you're at the office is no reason to stop thinking.