Quotes About Imagination

When the others grew tired and went home and there was no one else to play with I used to play my own Test matches on the porch of our house, using a broom handle or a stick as the bat and a marble as the ball. I would arrange the pot plants to represent fielders and try to find the gaps as I played my shots.

Human imagination is so much more potent than anything we could put down in words.

I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

What should exist? To me, that's the most exciting question imaginable. What do we need that we don't have? How can we realize our potential?

My interest in photography is not to capture an image I see or even have in my mind, but to explore the potential of moments I can only begin to imagine.

I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it.

I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize.

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

When the present gets tough, you have to battle through it by imagining an outcome that is weeks, potentially even months, ahead.

Making the ordinary potentially magical is what film should be all about.

I often use nameless places in my work as a way of allowing the readers to create more of the novel and to make it potentially about their experiences, what they know, a city that they have perhaps seen on television.

I learned early on that it's important to respect every idea as if it could potentially be worth something later.

Harry Potter is awesome.

I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.

Harry Potter' is my favorite movie of all time.

I had a ball doing Harry Potter.

Harry Potter was my first job.

I would love to meet J.K. Rowling and tell her how much I admire her writing and am amazed by her imagination. I read every 'Harry Potter' book as it came out and looked forward to each new one. I am rereading them now with my kids and enjoying them every bit as much. She made me look at jelly beans in a whole new way.

I read the 'Harry Potter' books as I was writing my own books, and I love them, but I don't think Harry was very much like I was as a kid. He's always brave, and he's perfect in a lot of ways.

I will never stop being excited about 'Harry Potter.'

I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.

'Harry Potter' is the first book that ever got me into reading. I had to read it in year 7, for school, and then I kept reading all of them.

After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before.

'Harry Potter' achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a children's book.