Quotes About Imagination

Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.

You want to invent new ideas, not new rules.

Good metaphors are "generative."13 The psychologist Donald Schon introduced this term to describe metaphors that generate "new perceptions, explanations, and inventions." Many

the pop-psychology literature is full of gurus urging you to visualize success. It turns out that a positive mental attitude isn't quite enough to get the job done. Maybe financial gurus shouldn't be telling us to imagine that we're filthy rich; instead, they should be telling us to replay the steps that led to our being poor.

We want what we might call a destination postcard—a vivid picture from the near-term future that shows what could be possible. That

Stories are like flight simulators for the brain.

Odds of winning Powerball: 1 in 292,201,338 Imagine having to guess which second of a day someone is thinking of—any date, hour, minute, and second from the time they're born to the time they turn 9. If you match, you win the lottery prize. The jackpot is yours. All you have to do is think of the resident of the United States whose name is written down over there on that folded piece of paper. (Hint: they are older than the age of 10.)

What should a Pegasus person do in this situation?

The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge.

Knowledge curses us, if we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. And it becomes difficult to share our knowledge with others because we can't readily re-create our listener's state of mind.

Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a simulation.

But at the end of the day, you can't major in Making Stuff, so it was Art by default.

My longing for someone to talk to made Himillsy the lightning bug in my honey jar. I punched holes in the lid so she could breathe.

I've been drawing shoes,' said Sketch, evoking a fireman who's been searching the smoking hulks of scorched buildings for burn victims, 'and it's been going feetingly.

Deep inside every customer is a treasure trove of half-baked ideas, creative capacity, and ingenuity-in-the-raw.

Curiosity is the secret map to accessing and mining your customer's imagination.

In the world of innovation, wacky wins; logical loses.

The opportunity to co-create is a gift you give your customer as a way to summon their imagination.

Access to inside your customer's imagination comes with learning and discovering together, out loud.

Envision what the path would be if the best answer lay inside the imagination of the customer.

In a judgment-free arena, there is an evident invitation to surface imaginative ideas, perspectives, and insights.

Let your co-creation partnership run free in the wild meadow of originality; it will be fenced in the stable of practicality soon enough.

If the pursuit of customer imagination were a religion, passion would be its hymnal.

Your being in the middle of your imagination turned on is not like a boardroom; it's like a candy shop.