Quotes About Imagination

[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time.

Without imagination, there is no goodness, no wisdom.

As a writer, you have control: You can play around with your own thoughts and when you find those insufficient, draw upon others': their wisdom, their humor, their failings.

Imagination is the door to inspiration and the basis of all thought.

In Coach Wooden's case, the term "drill" does indeed refer to making execution automatic, but it also means more. He designed lessons so that players could execute the fundamentals so well that they were able to, as the opportunity presented itself, take initiative and exercise imagination. "Drilling created a foundation," he likes to say, "on which individual initiative and imagination can flourish.

and the ones they like are the ones where they can say, yes, that's a movie. They can see it. Even if parts of it need work; maybe some of the jokes don't work, maybe some of the characters are a little cliché, maybe some of the stuff is a little repetitive. But if you can see the movie, there's a chance it might get made, even if they have

Un tercer rasgo fundamental del carácter de los superjefes —definitivo para sus innovaciones— es su naturaleza imaginativa. Los superjefes son visionarios. Piensan intensamente en lo que podría ser y se desviven por convertir sus sueños en realidad.

See him as the child he was.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

No furniture is so charming as books.

People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination

No furniture is so charming as books, even if you never open them or read a single word.

Live always in the best company when you read.

Enjoy and encourage your children's love of learning, but foster their play, responsibility, imagination, affection, and fun so they can grow as whole as well as gifted children.

The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story.

The human mind is incredible. It can do nothing without belief, yet practically anything with it.

I know little of magic, Lady,' he said haltingly. 'I am but a woodcutter's son, and there is much that is not given to men to understand; but of this I am sure: there is more to things than we imagine. Beyond the stars are worlds without number, perhaps, and had I never sought to look beyond my own I should be the poorer for it.

Oh, but he thinks he can save the world by slaying a dragon! With the help of a magic spell!' 'And he must think that. If he ever stops thinking it, it will cease to be true.

Delusion is not just fantasy but compulsion.

Laura took them into her arms. The great fans of orange tracery seemed to her even more beautiful than the chrysanthemums, for they had been given to her, they were a surprise. She sniffed. They smelt of woods, of dark rustling woods like the wood to whose edge she came so often in the country of her autumn imagination.

If one were to include one-tenth of the remarkable people one knows, in one's fiction, no one would accept it. Real life remains one's private menagerie.

The fortune of his game had brought him fairies—but he had always known fairies were in the pack.

But the prioress continued to express pleasure in Dame Alice's common sense, candour, and lack of imagination, so Dame Alice continued to manifest common sense and lack of imagination.

At these times she was subject to a peculiar kind of day-dreaming, so vivid as to be almost a hallucination: that she was in the country, at dusk, and alone, and strangely at peace. She did not recall the places which she had visited in holiday-time, these reproached her like opportunities neglected. But while her body sat before the first fires and was cosy with Henry and Caroline, her mind walked by lonely seaboards, in marshes and fens, or came at nightfall to the edge of a wood.