Quotes About Imagination

once asked Einstein if he carried a notebook to write down ideas. "I never have ideas" was the reply

If you think that the inventions we see around us came from someone sitting in a cubicle and concocting them according to a timetable, think again: almost everything of the moment is the product of serendipity.

Your mind keeps playing alternative scenarios branching out of a main tree:

When asked to imagine the future, we have the tendency to take the present as a baseline

A nerd is simply someone who thinks exceedingly inside the box.

So the reader can imagine my state of mind when

It struck me how lacking in imagination we are:

We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things look like.

On the day when we are able to foresee inventions we will be living in a state where everything conceivable has been invented. Our

The strength of the computer entrepreneur Steve Jobs was precisely in distrusting market research and focus groups—those based on asking people what they want—and following his own imagination. His modus was that people don't know what they want until you provide them with it.

Living on our planet, today, requires a lot more imagination than we are made to have.

Nunca pergunte às pessoas o que elas querem, ou para onde querem ir, ou para onde pensam que deveriam ir, ou, pior ainda, o que elas pensam que desejarão amanhã. A força do empreendedor do ramo da computação Steve Jobs estava, precisamente, em desconfiar das pesquisas de mercado e dos grupos de foco — aqueles com o objetivo de perguntar às pessoas o que elas querem — e seguir sua própria imaginação.

The beast in this book is not just the bell curve and the self-deceiving statistician, nor the Platonified scholar who needs theories to fool himself with. It is the drive to "focus" on what makes sense to us. Living on our planet, today, requires a lot more imagination than we are made to have. We lack imagination and repress it in others.

their intention was to bring a critical "balance" and use me as a counter to the numerous imaginative forecasts

If you are an idea person, you do not have to work hard, only think intensely.

Il mio mestiere è scrivere delle storie, cose inventate o cose che ricordo della mia vita ma comunque storie, cose dove non c'entra la cultura ma soltanto la memoria e la fantasia. Questo è il mio mestiere, e io lo farò fino alla morte

Las palabras se habían ido acumulando en su interior sobre todo durante aquella última época en la que había guardado cama con la pierna enyesada fantaseando con las cartas que le llegaban de Viareggio, fumando y abanicándose apoyada en los cojines y rodeada de interlocutores imaginarios y de siluetas inciertas y cambiantes que asentían sonriendo.

What is your suggestion for someone who wants to start writing? Be a reader. It's the only real way to learn how to tell a story.

Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams.

Readers are lucky -– they will never be bored or lonely.

Winnie did not believe in fairy tales. She had never longed for a magic wand, did not expect to marry a prince, and was scornful—most of the time—of her grandmother's elves. So now she sat, mouth open, wide-eyed, not knowing what to make of this extraordinary story. It couldn't—not a bit of it—be true. And yet:

I can't help what I dream.

Nonsense. It's elves!

Why not make a fiction of the mind's fictions?