Quotes About Imagination

I didn't know those normal kids and maybe I'd never know them, but each one of them was a story whose unhappy ending hadn't been written yet, and in its place I'd inscribed one line with my own hand

I put my fingers up to brush the fine links. Even lying on my skin, it still felt cool to the touch, and when I looked at myself in the mirror, in the glass I was not standing in my father's study. I was in a grove of dark winter trees, under a pale grey sky, and I could almost feel the snow falling onto my skin.

In the library everyone was rich.

Every day is a poetry day.

In these evenings he sat by our beds weaving folktales like vivid little scarves.

I'm still the kid dreaming of the lives she'll never have but guess what? Maybe she doesn't want them.

Procrastination is the most creative act there is.

Poetry is everything that headline news is not.

Last night I dreamed—blessed illusion— that I had a beehive here in my heart and that the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures. — Naomi Shihab Nye, Honeybee: Poems (HarperCollins, 2009)

I don't know if my father can hear me. But it is important to pretend he can./ My sanity rests in that. The man he was can hear the daughter I am.

Please describe how you became a writer. Possibly I began writing as a refuge from our insulting first grade textbook. Come, Jane, come. Look, Dick, look. Were there ever duller people in the world? You had to tell them to look at things? Whey weren't they looking to begin with?

As a child, you sat in a circle around your teacher and looked at her face as she read a story, and you felt the magic of human narrative in a collective context.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

You become what you think about

TO do much clear thinking a man must arrange for regular periods of solitude when he can concentrate and indulge his imagination without distraction. -Thomas A. Edison.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination. Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

You have been endowed with the power to use the most highly organized form of energy known to man, that of thought.

thoughts are things

Whatever your mind can conceive and can believe, it can achieve

Imagination is a faculty of the mind which can be cultivated, developed, extended and broadened by use.

The great leaders of business, industry, finance, and the great artists, musicians, poets, and writers became great, because they developed the faculty of creative imagination.

Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your Vision, your Ideal.