Quotes About Imagination

I've been thinking about 'The Jetsons' since I was a kid. But occasionally, you want 'The Jetsons' to come to reality. That's what Apple is so great at: Productizing things and bringing them to you so you can be a part of it.

When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.

What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.

Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.

Dreaming is a lifetime occupation.

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.

If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.

Invention and memory are so close together in the place they occupy in my brain.

Metaphor reveals a writer's true grasp of life. To the degree that you have no metaphor, you have not yet lived much of a life.

I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end up with a skyscraper made of wood.

neither knowledge nor imagination comes easily, it is buried in the pain of one's forgotten experience, and so one must work to find it, one must occasionally exhaust oneself by digging into the self in order to perceive the outside.

Our minds race ahead of us and summon strangers.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

You must conceive it in your heart and mind before you can receive it. If you believe then all things are possible.

What you can image, you will be, in the long run.

Prayerize, visualize, actualize—that is the formula for successful imaging.

what you can image you can be.

enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things; first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for a carrying that ideal into practice.

Never think of yourself as failing; never doubt the reality of the mental image. That is most dangerous, for the mind always tries to complete what it pictures.

Let the skeptics have their doubts. I prefer to believe that ideas do have wings!

The final and best antidote for worry is simply this: Image Jesus Christ as actually your personal friend.

Camelot, located nowhere in particular, can be anywhere.

Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human imagination as it extends from the height of imaginative heaven to the depth of imaginative hell.