Quotes About Imagination

Men imagine gods to be born, and to have clothes and voices and shapes like theirs....Yea, the gods of the Ethiopians are black and flat-nosed, and the gods of the Thracians are red-haired and blue-eyed.

Olaf Stapledon's classic work of science fiction, Star Maker:

The essence of humor is when our simulation of the future is suddenly disrupted in surprising ways.

It is impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity, and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport. Agriculture may diminish its labor and double its produce; all diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting even that of old age, and our lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian standard.

By mentally activating the power source, you can grab lightsabers from across the room with today's technology.

Cuando le enseñaron a la esposa de Einstein el colosal observatorio y le dijeron que el telescopio estaba determinando la forma definitiva del universo, ésta respondió sin inmutarse: «Mi marido lo hace en el reverso de un sobre usado».

El futuro es un tren de mercancías En resumen, somos nosotros quienes hemos de crear el futuro. No hay nada escrito en una piedra. Como Shakespeare escribió en Julio César: «El fallo, querido Bruto, no está en las estrellas, sino en nosotros mismos…». O como dijo una vez Henry Ford, de una forma quizá menos elocuente: «La historia es más o menos una tontería.7 Es tradición. Pero no queremos la tradición. Queremos

Si una idea no parece absurda de entrada, pocas esperanzas hay para ella. ALBERT EINSTEIN

sin ciencia no hay ciencia ficción.

Si la imaginación del hombre es tan débil que no acierta a inventar un garabato que diferencie claramente el cero de la O, Jacinto, todo ha de ser confusión, convéncete, porque hay mucha gente interesada en armarla (la confusión) porque de ella (de la confusión) sacan tajada los vivos, ¿te das cuenta?, y la única oportunidad de convivencia que se nos dio a los humanos, la Torre de Babel, la desperdiciamos bien tontamente.

Life is nothing but a dream, and if we are artists, then we can create our life with Love, and our dream becomes a masterpiece of art.

We only see what we want to see, and hear what we want to hear. We don't perceive things the way they are. We have the habit of dreaming with no basis in reality. We literally dream things up in our imaginations. Because we don't understand something, we make an assumption about the meaning, and when the truth comes out, the bubble of our dream pops and we find out it was not what we thought it was at all.

Humans are dreaming all the time.

Words are your paintbrush, and your life is the canvas. You can paint whatever you want to paint; you can even copy another artist's work — but what you express with your paintbrush is the way you see yourself, the way you see the entire reality.

Our eyes are on the past, and our imaginations fly to the future. This makes us impervious to the present moment. So we forget to be kind. We forget to say hello to a stranger or listen to a friend. We forget to be good to ourselves.

Words are your paintbrush, and your life is the canvas.

We are born with the capacity to learn how to dream, and the humans who live before us teach us how to dream the way society dreams.

As artists, we distort the truth and create the most amazing theories; we create entire philosophies and the most amazing religions; we create stories and superstitions about everything, including ourselves. And this is exactly the main point: We create them.

Today is the beginning of a new dream.

Soñar es la función principal de la mente, y la mente sueña veinticuatro horas al día.

I know that you see the world with different eyes, with your eyes. You create an entire picture or movie in your mind, and in that picture you are the director, you are the producer, you are the main actor or actress. Everyone else is a secondary actor or actress. It is your movie.

Tienes el poder de crear. Tu poder es tan fuerte que cualquier cosa que decidas creer se convierte en realidad.

La vida no es más que un sueño, y si somos artistas, crearemos nuestra vida con amor y nuestro sueño se convertirá en una obra maestra de arte.

The world is populated by billions of dreamers who aren't aware that people are living in their own world, dreaming their own dream.