Quotes About Imagination

Play is not only our creative drive; it's a fundamental mode of learning.

Challenging the status quo takes commitment, courage, imagination, and, above all, dedication to learning.

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.

The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.

For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one.

Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.

Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

What paper planes and empty seats most have in common is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.

It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

There is no algorithm for creativity.

Play is basic to all normal and healthy children. It provides pleasure and learning and a minimum of risks and penalties for mistakes.

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.

Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

As children, we are remarkably aware. We absorb and process information at a speed that we'll never again come close to achieving... we are learning about our world and its possibilities.