Quotes About Imagination

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

What happens after death is so glorious that our imagination, our feelings do not suffice to form even an approimate conception of it. Memories and Dreams,Carl Jung

In this way he slips imperceptibly into a purely conceptual world where the products of his conscious activity progressively take the place of reality.

like a dream which seems a reality as long as we are in it.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.

Many believe the process of creativity is one of assembling thoughts and concepts, but highly creative people will tell you that the idea, the song, the image, was in them, and their task was to get it out, a process of discovery, not design. This

Ingmar Bergman said, "Imagine I throw a spear into the dark. That is my intuition. Then I have to send an expedition into the jungle to find the spear. That is my intellect.

Because there was no expectation that I'd be right on any of this, I had simply said what came into my head. I thought I was making it up, creating it. More likely, I was calling it up, discovering it.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral." —Antoine De Saint-Exupery

if you cannot imagine something, you also cannot predict it, nor protect against it.

Many believe the process of creativity is one of assembling thoughts and concepts but highly creative people will tell you the song, the image was "in" them and they're task was to get it out, a process of discovery, not design. This said most artfully by Michael Angelo on how he created his most famous statue of David, he said, "It's easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David.

True fear is a gift that signals us in the presence of danger; thus, it will be based upon something you perceive in your environment or your circumstance. Unwarranted fear or worry will always be based upon something in your imagination or your memory.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral." —Antoine De Saint-Exupery See

Many experts lose the creativity and imagination of the less informed. They are so intimately familiar with known patterns that they may fail to recognize or respect the importance of the new wrinkle. The process of applying expertise is, after all, the editing out of unimportant details in favor of those known to be relevant.

FRED ROGERS ENTERED THE WORLD WITH A SERIOUS DISADVANTAGE, albeit a typical one: he was born a child.

We pledge to fight 'blue-sky thinking wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day.

Clouds are the most egalitarian of nature's displays, since each one of us has a good view of them, so it really doesn't matter where you are.

Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day.

Having your head in the clouds, even for just a few minutes each day, is good for your mind, good for your body, and good for your soul.

Close your eyes and you will see your dreams, open them and you will see obstacles.

It's quiet now. So quiet that can almost hear other people's dreams.

I can't imagine what it would be like to have had her company in my head—the comfort that would've brought.