Quotes About Imagination

And she understood as I did that when you sat down and put your hands on the keys, it was not just a piano in front of you, it was a universe.

The images of things are not the things in themselves.

Something made me pull sounds out of my silence...

Jennifer, I asked, what do you ever do besides read? She looked up at the sky and sighed and said very seriously, I think.

For the novelist or poet, for the scientist or artist, the question is not where do ideas come from, the question is how they come. The how is the mystery. The how is fragile.

As soon as I take down her book and open it...My skies rise higher and hang younger stars.

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

All artists, whether they know it or not create from a place of inner stillness, a place of no mind.

Man made "God" in his own image. The eternal, the infinite, and unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as "my god" or "our god.

All creativity comes out of inner spaciousness.

Si el futuro imaginado es mejor, le da placer o anticipación placentera. Si es peor, crea ansiedad.

the majority of scientists are not creative is not because they don't know how to think but because they don't know how to stop thinking!

Todos los artistas verdaderos, lo sepan o no, crean desde un lugar de no-mente, de quietud interior. La mente entonces da forma a la visión o impulso creativo. Incluso los grandes científicos han dicho que sus grandes logros creativos llegaron en un momento de quietud mental.

If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.

The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind. When the future comes, it comes as the Now.

You will observe that the future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety.

Si el futuro imaginario es mejor, te da esperanza o expectativas placenteras. Si es peor, crea ansiedad. Ambas son ilusorias.

Could adults actually deal with a weird monster under their bed? I think if the monster started moving around, then- well we'd get out of bed and we'd get a frying pan, and then we'd beat the crap out of the monster under the bed. Or we'd get a broom and poke the monster out. No, we'd lock the door and set fire to the house.

Imagine, if you can, a huge grizzly with ten legs armed with mighty talons and an enormous froglike mouth splitting his head from ear to ear, exposing three rows of long, white tusks. Then endow this creature of your imagination with the agility and ferocity of a half-starved Bengal tiger and the strength of a span of bulls, and you will have some faint conception of Woola in action.

The path of the mighty beast was guided telepathically by the two people who sat in a huge saddle that was cinched to the thoat's broad back.

how futile is man's poor, weak imagination by comparison with Nature's incredible genius. And

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs

There was no need for words—at least none that I could imagine, unless Perry desired to pray. And I was quite sure that he would