Quotes About Imagination

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas.

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas

The way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

A man of imagination has an advantage over other people, in that an actual experience is almost always less intense than his expectations of it.

Even in The Liberal Imagination, a book with a clear polemical purpose, ambivalence about the educative value of literature lurks in the background of many of the essays.

Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn't understand I'd invent a story and workout my understanding of something through the story.

Because you and I are alike that way. We know monsters are real, and they don't all live under the bed.

Toys are intriguing, and I want to see what I can do with them. On a deeper level, they represent one way that society socializes its young

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.

An invitation to innovation, Radiant Orchid encourages expanded creativity and originality, which is increasingly valued in today's society.

There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.

The arts stop society going rotten and mad.

Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.

Life is much larger than how we image it, always, but society can be constricting in ways.

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.

If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story.

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.

If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.

We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society.

Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.