Quotes About Imagination

Piense visualmente.

Recréese en la fantasía.

las ideas nuevas afloran cuando una multitud de conceptos casuales encajan entre sí hasta fusionarse.

Shakespeare's Henry V—the story of a willful and immature prince who becomes a passionate but sensitive, callous but sentimental, inspiring but flawed king—begins with the exhortation "O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend / The brightest heaven of invention.

The idea of a personal computer, one that ordinary individuals could get their hands on and take home, was envisioned in 1945 by Vannevar Bush.

inventiveness, imagination, and sustained innovation. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology

create a new standard takes not just making something that's a little bit different, it takes something that's really new and captures people's imagination.

That's crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they're doing, you say 'Wow,' and soon you're cooking up all sorts of ideas.

He didn't invent many things outright, but he was a master at putting together ideas, art, and technology in ways that invented the future. He

The job of art is to chase ugliness away." Bono

What is imagination?" she asked in an 1841 essay. "It is the Combining faculty. It brings together things, facts, ideas, conceptions in new, original, endless, ever-varying combinations. . . . It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science."25

Hacer lo imposible es bastante divertido, declaró en una ocasión Walt Disney.

Vision without execution is hallucination. But I also came to believe that his ability to blur the line between reality and fantasy, just like his sfumato techniques for blurring the lines of a painting, was a key to his creativity. Skill without imagination is barren. Leonardo knew how to marry observation and imagination, which made him history's consummate innovator.

Florence flourished in the fifteenth century because it was comfortable with such people. Above all, Leonardo's relentless curiosity and experimentation should remind us of the importance of instilling, in both ourselves and our children, not just received knowledge but a willingness to question it—to be imaginative and, like talented misfits and rebels in any era, to think different.

It should not be hard for you to look at stains on walls, or the ashes of a fire, or the clouds, or mud, and if you consider them well you will find marvelous new ideas, because the mind is stimulated to new inventions by obscure things.9

rethink things. There was something about the design that lacked purity, he felt. "Why

In collecting such a medley of ideas, Leonardo was following a practice that had become popular in Renaissance Italy of keeping a commonplace and sketch book, known as a zibaldone. But in their content, Leonardo's were like nothing the world had ever, or has ever, seen. His notebooks have been rightly called "the most astonishing testament to the powers of human observation and imagination ever set down on paper."3

Walter Isaacson

La mejor manera de predecir el futuro es inventarlo.

Because a lot of people think they're crazy, but in that craziness we see genius.

the ability to make connections across disciplines—arts and sciences, humanities and technology—is a key to innovation, imagination, and genius.

His notebooks have been rightly called "the most astonishing testament to the powers of human observation and imagination ever set down on paper.

More than anyone else of his time, he made products that were completely innovative, combining the power of poetry and processors. With a ferocity that could make working with him as unsettling as it was inspiring, he also built the world's most creative company. And he was able to infuse into its DNA the design sensibilities, perfectionism, and imagination that make it likely to be, even decades from now, the company that thrives best at the intersection of artistry and technology.

Skill without imagination is barren. Leonardo knew how to marry observation and imagination, which made him history's consummate innovator.