Quotes About Imagination

The kid come in at a strange angle, made the notes glitter like crystal.

Though a child, I did not picture a monster—he was no creature all teeth, all vicious blue eyes behind mangled wire spectacles; his voice was not slow and reptilian, his hands not huge black claws. I knew the nature of evil; I knew its benign, easy face. He would be a man, simply.

But Abraham, you mean I'm supposed to make stuff up !?!? - You are creators, you make stuff up all the time!

Never mind what is. Imagine it the way you want it to be so that your vibration is a match to your desire. When your vibration is a match to your desire, all things in your experience will gravitate to meet that match every time.

Whatever you are thinking about is like planning a future event. When you are appreciating, you are planning. When you are worrying, you are planning. (Worrying is using your imagination to create something you do not want.)

Many around you want to point out "reality" to you. They say, "Face the facts. Look at what-is. " And we say to you, if you are able to see only what-is—then, by the Law of Attraction, you will create only more of what-is. . . . You must be able to put your thoughts beyond what-is in order to attract something different or something more.

As you see anything that you think you would like to be in your life experience, see yourself collecting that data in a sort of mental bank. And then when you go into your Workshop, you can begin assimilating the data, and as you do so, you will prepare a picture of yourself from which you will begin attracting into your experience the essence of that which has been pleasing you.

Anything that you have the ability to visualize -- you have the ability to have a physical manifestation of! Abraham -- G 3/10/91

Look around less, imagine more.

In order for things to change, you have to see them as you want them to be rather than continuing to observe them as they are.

Let your alignment (with Well-Being) be first and foremost, and let everything else be secondary. And not only will you have an eternally joyous journey, but everything you have ever imagined will flow effortlessly into your experience. There is nothing you cannot be or do or have—but your dominant intent is to be joyful. The doing and the having will come into alignment once you get that one down.

they tell me there are four seasons but I live in a fifth one which is your space and your time

Night is an element of love; like fog. It liberates space, lets freshness cross it. Its magic elevates the body, brings to the surface the mystery of just being alive, being. With or without stars and galaxies, the sky becomes a private territory—the imagination's own scope. These are moments when one reaches all there is between the moon and oneself. — Etel Adnan, Etel Adnan: on Love and the Cost We Are Not Willing to Pay Today (Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH & Co KG, 2011)

It seems to me I write what I see, paint what I am.

For three months, a person sits and looks at you, imagining a kiss.

He misses the feeling of creating something out of something. That's right — something out of something. Because something out of nothing is when you make something up out of thin air, in which case it has no value. Anybody can do that. But something out of something means it was really there the whole time, inside you, and you discover it as part of something new, that's never happened before.

You can remember without seeing it.

Once he was going, it was difficult to stop him. "Mathematics is like carving a wooden doll," he said, "and then, one day, you watch as your wooden doll gives birth to another wooden doll." These words have stayed with me all my life.

If you're already a front-end developer, well, pretend you're also wearing a pirate hat.

Visualization is not just some spiritual event—it's a basic cognitive process.

If you are preparing for an important meeting or event, for instance, you often fantasize about everything that could possibly go wrong beforehand. This is basically just an anxious mind generating a negative, insecure, and incapable image of itself. With visualization, the very space of our imagination, often dominated by fantasies of the future and nightmares of the past, could be converted into a kind of mindfully creative space, a kind of movie studio that actually benefits sentient beings.

One may write about the child one was with the same freedom that a novelist creates a character. There is no fear of egotism, for the portrait is one of faint colors, and the incidents that crowd in on any small life are incidents of childhood rather than of a particular child.

A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head.

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. The strands are all there: to the memory nothing is ever really lost.