Quotes About Imagination

When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain... As they explained, this had been sung by a human who had visited Fantastica long years before, name of Shexper, or something of the sort.

I wonder what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, there's a whole story with people I don't know yet and all kinds of adventures and deeds and battles. And sometimes there are storms at sea, or it takes you to strange cities and countries. All those things are somehow shut up in a book.

Há muitas portas para Fantasia, meu rapaz. Há muitos outros livros mágicos. Muitas pessoas nunca percebem isto. Tudo depende da pessoa em cujas mãos o livro vai parar.

Me gustaría saber qué pasa realmente en un libro cuando está cerrado. Naturalmente, dentro solo hay letras impresas sobre el papel, pero sin embargo algo debe pasar, porque cuando lo abro aparece de pronto una historia entera.

Have you noticed that it's enough just to close your eyes for a few minutes? he asked softly. When you open them again you are in another reality. Everything changes all the time.

that Fantastica is the land of stories? A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.

Bastian miró el libro. <>, se dijo, <>.

There is nothing more dangerous in life than dreams that come true...

I have never had the lust to meet famous authors; the best of them is in their books.

Thus, although life is by and large unthrilling, when we do find ourselves in the sort of situation upon which thrillers dote we cannot really experience it, because our imaginations are occupied by the familiar tropes of popular fiction. And the result of this is a kind of dull bafflement, and the sense that whatever it is cannot really be happening. We actually think that phrase: this can't be happening to me.

When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I've never really noticed the difference. I've always dreamt big.

Don't spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice.

Da Vinci composed what is perhaps the most outstanding employment application letter of all time: "I wish to work miracles.…" —LEONARDO DA VINCI

Art provides us with clues about how to live our lives more fully...about how creating, collecting, and even just appreciating art can make daily living a masterpiece.

Reality is a cloud of possibility, not a point.

good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said.

The only thing any of us can do completely on our own is to have the start of a good idea.

What's amazing is that they make a market in this fantasy stuff," said Druskin. "It's not a real asset.

What people remember about the past, they suggested, is likely to warp their judgment of the future. "We often decide that an outcome is extremely unlikely or impossible, because we are unable to imagine any chain of events that could cause it to occur. The defect, often, is in our imagination."¶ The

The power of an imagination can arise from what it refuses to foresee.

What begins as a failure of the imagination ends as a market inefficiency: when you rule out an entire class of people from doing a job simply by their appearance, you are less likely to find the best person for the job.

the risk we should most fear is not the risk we easily imagine. It is the risk that we don't.

fifth risk: the risk a society runs when it falls into the habit of responding to long-term risks with short-term solutions. "Program management" is not just program management. "Program management" is the existential threat that you never really even imagine as a risk.

Stories people told themselves were biased by the availability of the material used to construct them...what people remember about the past, [Kahneman and Tversky] suggested, is likely to warp their judgement of the future. We often decide that an outcome is extremely unlikely or impossible, because we are unable to imagine any chain of events that could cause it to occur. The defect, often, is in our imagination.