Quotes About Imagination

Janelle woke up, terrified. This wasn't that unusual. Janelle was terrified over lots of stuff...spiders, hamsters, people. As a little girl, she once called 911 to report that her shadow was following her.

Whether ideas like this are inspiration or insomnia, I don't know," he writes in his journal. "I do things by sixth sense." Patton

Fantasy island before

But I dream things that never were and say, 'Why not?

Imagination may be the most essential, uniquely human capacity - creating both the dead-end crises of our time and the doorway through them.

What we need now are new stories to share with each other, new tales to live into the world, which is to say, stories to make real by living our own versions of them.

As Carl Jung repeatedly declared, our goal is wholeness, not perfection. People living soulcentrically are not untroubled or unchallenged. They are not beyond experiencing times of confusion, mistakes, and tragedies. They have by no means healed all their wounds. They are simply on a path to wholeness, to becoming fully human- with all the inevitable defects and distresses inherent in any human story and with all the promise held by our uniquely human imagination.

So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.

How come we play war and not peace? Too few role models.

Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty. Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.

You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?

I'm here because all fairy tales take place in the woods, King Cole, even those that don't.

Stories create stories, create stories, create stories, or nothing gets done.

Our fictions move us to do great things, things worth doing for no better reason than there's poetry in us. We dream before we do.