Quotes About Imagination

Where do we get the notion that our idea of success and God's are the same? You have written a book; you are a clever manager and promoter; you are a talented artist; you are independently wealthy; you have achieved fame and fortune. Without the gifts of intelligence, imagination, personality, and physical energy—which are all endowed by God—where would you be?

God is concerned with our imaginations, for they in a large measure determine what kind of persons we are to be.

All transgressions begin with sinful thinking . . . guard against the pictures of lewdness and sensuality that Satan flashes upon the screen of your imagination, select with care the books you read, choose discerningly the kind of entertainment you attend, the kind of associates with whom you mingle, and the kind of environment in which you place yourself.

Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.

That's the trouble with you readers. You know all the plots.

It's every little girl's dream to have an exact look-alike doll. It's amazing.

A kind of happy that, if manifested into tangibility, would've taken the shape of a daisy.

The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.

If after I read a poem, the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so, I'm sure it's a good one.

On the unbreathing sides of hills they play, a specklike girl and boy, alone, but near a specklike house. The sun's suspended eye blinks casually, and then they wade gigantic waves of light and shade. A dancing yellow spot, a pup, attends them.

Constraint inspires creativity

Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true

Creativity is a renewable resource. Challenge yourself every day. Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out.

Constraint inspired creativity. Blank spaces are difficult to fill, but the smallest prompt can send us in fantastic new directions

Think about your work situation. Do you treat your creativity like a fossil fuel—a limited resource that must be conserved—or have you harnessed the unending power of the sun? Are you in an environment where creativity thrives? Is there room for new ideas every day? Can you make room?

Plain hard work is good and important, but it is ideas that drive us, as individuals, companies, nations, and a global community. Creativity is what makes us unique, inspired, and fulfilled.

I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up and kill it in the evening, which is a bit outrageous, but there you go.

You show me continents, I see the islands, You count the centuries, I blink my eyes.

Man is an inventive animal, and he does not invent from a compulsion of nature, as bees make cells or as swallows build nests. These are all prescribed operations which the animal must perform; but the inventive faculty in man is free, in such a manner that the course of its action cannot be foreseen or calculated. It revels in variety, and, above all things, shuns that uniformity which is the servile province of brute activity.

All dreams are but a single dream.

Humanity lives in its fiction.

À quoi bon écrire ? tout s'imprime en moi et c'est peut-être la pure poésie que de se laisser imprégner et de déchiffrer en soi-même la signature des choses.

Blaise Cendrars