Quotes About Imagination

There are powers inside of you, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.

Vision is tomorrow's reality expressed as an idea today.

Leaders must see the dream in their mind before they will accomplish the dream with their team.

Sight is seeing with the eyes; vision is seeing with the mind.

Longterm success begins with the longterm imagination to envision the life you've always wanted.

Life is a dream made real through the power of our imaginations.

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come if you don't, there's no hope for you.

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. --From the Introduction

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Almost any story is almost certainly some kind of lie.

Even if the good old days never existed, the fact that we can conceive of such a world is, in fact, an affirmation of the human spirit. That the imagination of man is capable of creating the myth of a more open, more generous time is not a sign of our folly.

To crudely paraphrase a far more elegant apology than ours: Piece out our imperfections with your mind; think - when we speak of whale-boats, whales and oceans, that you see them - for 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our stage; jumping o'er time; turning the accomplishments of many years into an hour-glass...

Few children learn to love books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful written word; someone has to lead the way.

In the biblical view the issue is not modern versus postmodern. Both these views are partly right, and both are finally wrong. Nor is it rational argument versus story, or reason versus imagination. In fact it is not either-or at all. The deep logic of God's truth can be expressed in both stories and arguments, by questions as well as statements, through reason and the imagination, through the four Gospels as well as through the book of Romans.

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.

This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.

The deep logic of God's truth can be expressed in both stories and arguments, by questions as well as statements, through reason and the imagination, through the four Gospels as well as through the book of Romans.

I'm going to paint too. I'm going to paint pictures of ghosts and devils and horses out of hell.

It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling.

It was not so much shame that I experienced as the feeling that the actual world was an unfamiliar organism utterly unlike the world of my imagination. I was assailed by a sensation of desolation more intense than anything I had previously known, as if I had been abandoned at dusk in an autumnal wasteland where no answering sound would ever come, however often I called. Is that, I wonder, what is meant by the pat phrase "disappointed love"?