Quotes About Imagination

Your life is a blank page. You write on it.

the human heart uses the tools of reality to create elements of story, and the human heart responds to climax in the structure of story, this means that climax, or point of decision, could very well be something that exists in the universe.

I believe there is a writer outside ourselves, plotting a better story for us, interacting with us, even, and whispering a better story into our consciousness.

people can't live without a story, without a role to play.

I live in fantasies. I live terrific lives in my head. It's part of the creative imagination, to daydream, to invent stories.

Advertisers personify the problems their customers face in order to capture their imagination and give their frustrations a focal point.

La recompensa que obtienes al vivir una historia nunca es tan grande como te la habías imaginado y el trabajo es más duro de lo que creíste en un principio. Recuerda que el propósito de una historia nunca es el final, sino tu carácter que se moldea con el arduo trabajo que realizas en la parte del medio.

We must tell our customers how great their life can look if they buy our products and services

offering a vision for how great a customer's life could be if they engage your products or services.

in a story, there are three levels of problems that work together to capture a reader's or a moviegoer's imagination.

Stew Friedman at the Wharton School puts it, defining a "compelling image of an achievable future,"1 leaders captivate the imaginations of their audiences.

You put something on the page," he said. "Your life is a blank page. You write on it.

But I didn't like thinking about myself anymore. You get tired of thinking about yourself all the time when you're a writer.

There was also no character arc. Change only comes when we face the difficulty of reality head-on. Fantasy changes nothing, which is why, once we're done fantasizing, it feels like a bankrupt story.

I was creating someone I could live through, the person I'd be if I redrew the world

Where there is an absence of story, or perhaps a bad story, a good storyteller walks in and changes reality. He doesn't critique the existing story, or lament about his boredom, like a critic. He just tells something different and invites other people into the new story he is telling.

You can't go on without a story any longer than you can read a book about nothing.

like chords of music in the sense that you can use them to create an infinite variety of narrative expression.

I felt like I was in a movie and had two cameras for eyes

What makes these loglines complete and effective? Two things: imagination and intrigue. They summarize the movie in a way that a viewer can imagine the story, and they do so with enough intrigue that they make the reader want to watch the film.

neuroscientists claim the average human being spends more than 30 percent of their time daydreaming . . . unless they're reading, listening to, or watching a story unfold.

by helping them imagine what life can look like when they buy your products or services.

I want you to understand that God has never been nor will ever be invented. He is not a product of any sort of imagination... Don't complain about the way God answers your prayers...Your problem is not that God is not fulfilling, your problem is that you are spoiled.

Change only comes when we face the difficulty of reality head-on. Fantasy changes nothing, which is why, once we're done fantasizing, it feels like a bankrupt story.