Quotes About Imagination

Draw yourself up to your full height and look your audience straight in the eyes, and begin to talk as confidently as if every one of them owed you money. Imagine that they do. Imagine that they have assembled there to bet you for an extension of credit. The psychological effect on you will be beneficial.

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

Religion as actually lived, not as some figment of the academic imagination, always claims to involve knowledge of how things are.

You need to imagine what your day would look like with Jesus at your side—as he will be.

Too many are tempted to dismiss what Jesus says as just "pretty words." But those who think it is unrealistic or impossible are more short on imagination than long on logic. They should have a close look at the universe God has already brought into being before they decide he could not arrange for the future life of which the Bible speaks.

We do all we do in the knowledge that we are working alongside him. Moreover, we do this kind of work hand in hand with the cultivation of the mind and spirit through art and imagination, poetry and song, praise, prayer, and worship. These all help our minds to lay hold of this God, this most lovable being in all of reality.

As she starts to read, the book travels into her from a long distance, from his mind to mine, across a gap in time, and now she's not in the room any more, she's inside the sentences, one joined to the next like a series of tunnels, connected to each other at angles.

Memory is fiction . . . All memory is a way of reconstructing the past. . . The act of narrating a memory is the act of creating fiction. [Armitstead, Claire. "Damon Galgut talks about his novel In a Strange Room." The Guardian. 10 September 2010.]

from chapter 3, What Makes A Good Story?) Our willingness to hold dear the moments of past shalom prepares us to imagine a new and better day, and, even more to move toward that day with passion and purpose.

But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening...doesn't mean it won't.

Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.

the strange ideas we derive today will one day be our celebrated truths

There is a fine line between insanity and genius.

your memories will be muddled and uncataloged - past, present, and imagination all mixed together. The same thing happens in dreams.

Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first. Originality consists of returning to the origin. —ANTONI GAUDÍ

Sophie, every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith—acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory, and exaggeration, from the early Egyptians through modern Sunday school. Metaphors are a way to help our minds process the unprocessible. The problems arise when we begin to believe literally in our own metaphors.

That is the definition of faith -- acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

Good science fiction has its roots in good science.

A reader's desire to guess what I've hidden is always more exciting than anything I can show.

By way of fairy tales, this primeval battle of good vs. evil is ingrained into us as children through our stories: Merlin vs. Morgan le Fay, Saint George vs. the Dragon, David vs. Goliath, Snow White vs. the Witch, and even Luke Skywalker battling Darth Vader.

every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith—acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

Authors. Even the sane one are nuts. - Da Vinci Code

We all benefit from a sense of contact with divinity… even if it is only imagined.

The carved stone sign in front read Building C. Imaginative title, Langdon thought