Quotes About Imagination

Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

The famous Don Quixote de la Mancha, other wise called the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance.

He's [Don Quixote's] a muddled fool, full of lucid intervals.

Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing-stock.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Mira, eso del amor es una cosa de libros, algo que se ha inventado no más que para hablar y escribir de ello. Tonterías de poetas

Que sueño...? Dejadme soñar; si ese sueño es mi vida, no me despertéis de él. Creo

Quando um homem adormecido e inerte na cama sonha algo, o que é que existe mais, ele como consciência que sonha, ou o seu sonho?

No, yo no soy un vago! Mi imaginación no descansa. Los vagos son ellos, los que dicen que trabajan y no hacen sino aturdirse y ahogar el pensamiento.

Leer, leer, leer, vivir la vida que otros soñaron. Leer, leer, leer, el alma olvida las cosas que pasaron. Se quedan las que quedan, las ficciones, las flores de la pluma, las solas, las humanas creaciones, el poso de la espuma. Leer, leer, leer; ¿seré lectura mañana también yo? ¿Seré mi creador, mi criatura, seré lo que pasó?

Rol yapmak hepimizin hoÅŸuna gider küçük bey, hiç kimse kendisi deÄŸildir, baÅŸkalar?n?n yarat?lar?d?r.

Ler, ler, ler, viver a vida que outros sonharam...

Amaba el libro, pero el libro espontáneamente elegido. Ella entendía que el vicio o la virtud de leer dependían del primer libro. Aquel que llegaba a interesarse por un libro se convertía inevitablemente en esclavo de la lectura. Un libro te remitía a otro libro, un autor a otro autor, porque, en contra de lo que solía decirse, los libros nunca te resolvían problemas sino que te los creaban, de modo que la curiosidad del lector siempre quedaba insatisfecha.

I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.

But consuming culture is never as rewarding as producing it.

Whenever the outside world offers no mercy, an internal symbolic system can become a salvation.

Luckily, the world is absolutely full of interesting things to do. Only lack of imagination, or lack of energy, stand in the way. Otherwise each of us could be a poet or musician, an inventor or explorer, an amateur scholar, scientist, artist, or collector.

When people are asked to choose from a list the best description of how they feel when doing whatever they enjoy doing most—reading, climbing mountains, playing chess, whatever—the answer most frequently chosen is "designing or discovering something new.

Perhaps the most urgent task facing us is to create a new educational curriculum that will make each child aware, from the first grade on, that life in the universe is interdependent. It should be an education that trains the mind to perceive the network of causes and effects in which our actions are embedded, and trains the emotions and the imagination to respond appropriately to the consequences of those actions.

I am fooling around not doing anything, which probably means that this is a creative period, although of course you don't know until afterward. I think that it is very important to be idle. I mean, they always say that Shakespeare was idle between plays. I am not comparing myself to Shakespeare, but people who keep themselves busy all of the time are generally not creative. So I am not ashamed of being idle.