Quotes About Imagination

There are a number of smells I've loved in my lifetime, but few can compare with the smell of a bookstore.

looking at the piles around us—they were like literary land mines just waiting to explode minds.

These dreams were so real they left me shaken and unsure of which world I was in.

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple — to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

It was like being trapped forever in the present tense of the first line of a first reader.

much of poetry in the making is the fiddle with a few items. You lay a word against another and wait. You try another word. And another. Yet another. You wait. You begin again. Listening. Looking. For the elusive inevitable thing which has to arrive before it is recognised. And, like Odysseus, may not be recognised at first.

With things like this, when people don't really understand what has happened, they'll assume the worst long before they have to. It's a little like when people are afraid of the dark. Often it's not the darkness they're afraid of, it's the fact that they don't know what's in it. And because they can't see, because they're not sure, they start to imagine there are more sinister things afoot than there ordinarily would be.

Like, I know I'm unbearably obnoxious at home, but I'm actually pretty shy out there. I'm like the chubby quiet brown girl who is decent academically, but who never risks venturing an opinion. It's weird, because, like, in a world full of frost giants and dwarves and demons and spellcasting, my fantasies were really about being a confident, decisive person who had their shit together and was listened to.

That's what you do, right? When you're readin. You're seeing what it's like for other people.

I've always found that if you live in a cramped place, you have cramped thoughts.

At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars.

And there you have it, Your Highness. Turning a jug of water into gold.

Work ethic (chapter 1) Resilience (chapter 2) Originality (chapter 3) Childlike imagination (chapter 4) Insatiable curiosity (chapter 5) Passion (chapter 6) Creative maladjustment (chapter 7) Rebelliousness (chapter 8) Cross-border thinking (chapter 9) Contrarian action (chapter 10) Preparation (chapter 11) Obsession (chapter 12) Relaxation (chapter 13) Concentration (chapter 14)

Winston Churchill was likewise a poor student, admitting that "Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

Genius is only childhood recovered at will.

Pablo Picasso initially lost custody of his inner child and had to work to get it back. "Every child is an artist," he said. "The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up.

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination," Walt Disney said. "But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.

Neoteny is a term coined by evolutionary biologists to explain the human capacity to perpetuate juvenile characteristics, such as curiosity, play, and imagination, into adult life.

As the eternal child Albert Einstein said in 1929, "I am enough of the artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

The poet Charles Baudelaire got it right when he observed in 1863, "Genius is only childhood recovered at will."35

I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I'd say, 'I'm still dead, Mom!' I was Method, even then.

There's no such thing as im-POSSIBLE, Hiccup, only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imagination

The past is another land, and we cannot go to visit. So, if I say there were dragons, and men who rode upon their backs, who alive has been there and can tell me that I'm wrong?

But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages.