Quotes About Imagination

Would I be any less real if I lived only in your mind?

Not that it matters, when you dream, there's no outside or in. Your mind is an unimaginable bloom. A willow catkin as big as the moon. With billions of anthers, shaking pollen like stars. It may seem strange, but in this boundless place --- You are not alone.

Your brain is a forest, And the nerves are trees. When the branches touch, Snaps jumps between the leaves.

Forgive us our fantasies. It's all we have.

The night sky was clear, but he drew clouds across it, combers that roiled like waves above him.

You imagine you're kin to the stars. But the same sap that inflames you, freezes and splits you. And the older you grow, the deader at heart.

Dorner leaned back in his chair, imagining what might have happened if he hadn't injected himself. The limbo of sleep, dark and secret— Drowning in the sea of voices. Not waking, not fighting. Letting them storm him without resisting.

One resourceful mom took her son's fixation on the video game Minecraft and made real wood "Minecraft" blocks for her son and the neighborhood kids to play with. This provided a connection between building things in the virtual world and building structures in the real world.

To dream, to imagine, for in that is the best hope of rebuilding, of recovering, of growing...

Perhaps you should have been a dragon yourself!" she shouted back. "If you could see the world as I see it!

She pulled him through the door. As he passed the jamb from the dingy hallway it was like stepping into a Gilbert Morosco party. Lines wavered, planes warped, colors blended and changed and formed unfathomable patterns; odors penetrated his head, drove openings through passages

You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?

I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.

Dedicated to that amazing device, the Required Reading List, better even than artificial respiration for keeping dead authors alive.

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the ethic envisioned by the New Testament writers is not an impossible ideal. If we fail to live in obedient responsiveness to their moral vision, that is because of a failure of the imagination—or perhaps a lack of courage—on our part.

An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.

You were starting to sound a little like a Stephen King novel for a while there

Whenever you get directions from someone, or you give directions to someone, you rely on your own ability to go inside and mentally represent through a movie how to get to wherever it is you need to go. When people create anything, they must create it first in their minds by imagining what it is going to look like.

Think of a time when you felt really good. Now, step inside that time and see through your eyes, hear through your ears, and feel the really good feeling all the way through your body. Make the images bigger, brighter, more colorful, and you'll probably find yourself feeling even better. Make the sounds louder and crisper, and if there are no sounds, add sounds. Start to intensify the good feeling.

Run all the way to the end of the episode, float back down into the theatre, float into the movie, and then run it backward so everybody walks backward and talks backward, and throw in a little circus music so it's as ridiculous as it could be. Then, clear your mind for ten minutes and then go back and think of what you were afraid of. You will be amazed to discover that your fear has severely diminished if not disappeared entirely.