Quotes About Imagination

Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of humankind.

SELL YOUR CLEVERNESS AND CREATE A SENSE OF AWE

When you get in the door, do not sell your product. People make a decision on your product in five seconds. Sell the dream. Build up images of the dream. Give a taste of what the dream is like. Let it linger.

My only hope for my future is I learn to dot the landscape of my life once more with question marks instead of periods. To turn judgments into queries. To turn "this" into "that?" To make every problem a maze. To be like a six-year-old.

The way you get good ideas is to do two things: 1) Read two hours a day. 2) Write ten ideas a day. By the end of a year, you will have read for almost one thousand hours and written down 3,600 ideas. One of these ideas will be a home run.

The idea muscle must be exercised every day. Even if you've come up with ideas every day of your life, it will atrophy if you give it a two-week rest.

Good ideas are a link between the real world and the world of myths and dreams.

Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.

don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want—freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of humankind.

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Every day, be creative. Creativity is a muscle.

We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.

IDEAS ARE THE CURRENCY OF LIFE. Not money.

Humans are great storytellers. That's what separates us from every other species.

Ideas are the dark matter of the universe. We know it's there, but only those "in the know" can see them.

Nothing wrong with suburbs and kids. But every day, I feel she is telling me, you have to unlock your creativity. If you don't let it flow, it will be trapped inside, it will mutate, it will kill you. Every day, create.

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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimeter the way people look at reality, then you can change it.

Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.

No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face of any stranger. Strangers' faces hold no secrets because the imagination does not invest them with any. But the face of a lover is an unknown precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide.