Quotes About Imagination

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.

We are educating people out of their creative capacities.

You don't think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody's English class, wasn't he? How annoying would that be?

One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.

You create your own life by how you see the world and your place in it;

Learning in and about the arts is essential to intellectual development.

As soon as we have the power to release our minds from the immediate here and now, in a sense we are free. We are free to revisit the past, free to reframe the present, and free to anticipate a whole range of possible futures. Imagination is the foundation of everything that is uniquely and distinctively human. It is the basis of language, the arts, the sciences, systems of philosophy, and the all the vast intricacies of human culture.

Communication is not only about words and numbers. Some thoughts can't be properly expressed in these ways at all. We also think in sounds and images, in movement and gesture, which gives rise to our capacities for music, visual arts, dance, and theater in all their variations.

There are three related ideas, which I will elaborate as we go on. They are imagination, which is the process of bringing to mind things that are not present to our senses; creativity, which is the process of developing original ideas that have value, and innovation, which is the process of putting new ideas into practice.

As Joseph Campbell says, if you move in the direction of your passions, opportunities tend to appear that you couldn't have imagined and that weren't otherwise there.

the emphasis on testing comes at the expense of teaching children how to employ their natural creativity and entrepreneurial talents—the precise talents that might insulate them against the unpredictability of the future in all parts of the world.

Creativity is a step beyond imagination because it requires that you actually do something rather than lie around thinking about it.

I believe profoundly that we don't grow into creativity; we grow out of it. Often we are educated out of it.

You can think of creativity as a conversation between what we're trying to figure out and the media we are using.

If you design a system to do something specific, don't be surprised if it does it. If you run an education system based on standardization and conformity that suppresses individuality, imagination, and creativity, don't be surprised it that's what it does.

I define creativity as the process of having original ideas that have value.

The human world is created out of our minds as much as from the natural environment.

Misunderstanding the process is why many people become disillusioned and think they are not creative.

Life is rarely a straight line moving upward across a page. Real life is more like a beautiful scribble, looping across the page. Life is complex and unpredictable, and because of our powers of imagination and creativity we are able to navigate it.

Creativity is call and response: one idea can catalyze a multitude more in the minds of other people.

This book contains a wide range of stories about the creative journeys of very different people.

Todos nacemos con una capacidad extraordinaria para la imaginación, la inteligencia, las emociones, la intuición, la espiritualidad y con conciencia física y sensorial.

What I loved about this was that it illustrated that, when they are very young, kids aren't particularly worried about being wrong.