Quotes About Imagination

Our biggest technology that we ever, ever invented was articulated language with built-out grammar. It is that that allows us to imagine things far in the future and things way back in the past.

When we carve out a niche for ourselves in our imagined future, and decide that we won't be happy until we achieve it, we can only feel threatened and anxious over anything that stands in our way.

I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic.

What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.

Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.

There is a child in all of us, a person who believes in a glorious future.

Blade Runner was an incredibly influential movie, in terms of the way that it envisioned what the future was going to look like.

The future is created through memory.

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?

Even gang members imagine a future that doesnt include gangs.

You can't create the future unless you imagine it.

I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shot gun in the sky and they were turning into butterflies above our nation.

Memory is set up to use the past to imagine the future.

Is it possible that the creative act is simply the materialization of the future- making the invisible, visible?

Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.

Star Trek characters never go shopping.

The future is like the moon. You never expect to go there, or think about what it might be like.

Unless we dream the best dreams of which we are capable, the future will be poorer than it might be.

Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.

To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.

Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past.

a dream is only a memory of the future

Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination.