Quotes About Imagination

I'm a black kid from the ghetto of Coney Island, Brooklyn, who only ever dreamed of playing in the NBA. So to have that dream come true but then go on this second journey in China... it's so far beyond anything that kid could have imagined.

Getting to be on DVD is a huge step for me as an actor, this isn't the world that I imagined for myself.

I have never imagined that I would get married and that I would become a father.

But I never imagined that I could ever have a career in music. I always thought it was like a mafia, that you had to sell your soul and know the right people and be in the right place.

I haven't even imagined having a kid yet. It's actually kind of one of my biggest fears, but that's OK.

When we lay something out and the talent goes out there, I'm part of the creative process of helping putting things together maybe putting things in different places. When they go out there and execute it even better than I have it imagined in my head, it is just a great feeling.

I had never imagined I will come into pageants, because all this happened accidentally in my life, when I was just 17-years-old.

I never imagined that I would be at a club like Inter, with so much history and success and also as the captain. I can't see myself as a coach, but maybe as a director to give back to the club.

I never even imagined having my own shoe.

Who hasn't imagined themselves cruising around in an X-wing?

I love 80s fashion. I love it because it's what my mum and aunties looked like when I was a little girl. It's what I imagined myself looking like when I was a grown up.

When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?

I've always loved design. I loved imagining the way people could live in a space, that's what I connected to.

Most farmers know that their children's future will probably not be in agriculture, but they have a hard time imagining a different life.

In the 1980s when I was growing up in the Berkshire town of Maidenhead I was heavily into tennis. It was the era of Borg and McEnroe. I used to spend hours hitting balls against a wall, imagining I was beating them both.

I'm always seeing stuff and imagining scenes in my head when I'm making music.

I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.

When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.

When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in.

I was imagining films in my head and trying to gather friends together to make movies since I was a kid. I tried to do comedy skits and a horror film.

Writing in the electronic world, you imagine a sound, and then you have to go and find it. It's not like imagining a flute and then making that sound materialize. That's easy!

Part of a writer's job is just spacing out, looking into the air and imagining things.

It's something I've enjoyed since being a kid, the fantasy of it, the imagining I'm someone other than who I am. I've always felt claustrophobic in one sense of identity. If anything, I've had to work to develop a sense of my own identity. I used to really hate it when people defined me.

I wonder: Would there be a black president if people hadn't already begun imagining, through film and television, that a black man is president? It's self-actualization.