Quotes About Imagination

Don't copy. Create.

'Avatar' is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but it's put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone.

Your brain and body don't know the difference between having an actual experience in your life and just thinking about the experience—neurochemically, it's the same.

Consider creating several Mind Movies—one for health and wellness, for example, and another for romance, relationships, and wealth.

if you focus on the known, you get the known. If you focus on the unknown, you create a possibility.

When you think from your past memories, you can only create past experiences.

In other words, if you can imagine a particular future event that you want to experience in your life, that reality already exists as a possibility somewhere in the quantum field—beyond this space and time—just waiting for you to observe it. If your mind (through your thoughts and feelings) can affect when and where an electron appears out of nowhere, then theoretically, you should be able to influence the appearance of any number of possibilities that you can imagine. From

When you're truly focused on an intention for some future outcome, if you can make inner thought more real than the outer environment during the process, the brain won't know the difference between the two. Then your body, as the unconscious mind, will begin to experience the new future event in the present moment. You'll signal new genes, in new ways, to prepare for this imagined future event.

Like clay, the energy of infinite possibilities is shaped by consciousness: your mind.

Es decir, si puedes imaginar un acontecimiento futuro en tu vida basándote en cualquiera de tus deseos, esta realidad ya existe como posibilidad en el campo cuántico, esperando a que la observes. Si tu mente puede influir en la aparición de un electrón, en teoría también puede influir en la aparición de cualquier posibilidad.

In order of slowest to fastest, the brain-wave states are delta (deep, restorative sleep—totally unconscious), theta (a twilight state between deep sleep and wakefulness), alpha (the creative, imaginative state), beta (conscious thought), and gamma (elevated states of consciousness).

Most days, we move back and forth between beta and alpha states. Alpha is our relaxation state, where we pay less attention to the outer world and start to pay more attention to our inner world. When we're in alpha, we're in a light state of meditation; you could also call that imagination or daydreaming. In this state, our inner world is more real than our outer world, because that's what we're paying attention to.

You might smile instead of staring blankly. You may have to imagine what walking as a wealthy person feels like by modeling a wealthy person. You might adopt the posture of a courageous person you admire, walk within the elevated energy of your future healthy body, or walk as an open-hearted, loving, accepting person

If you told me that you didn't like being in that void because it's so disorienting and that you can't see what lies ahead because you can't predict your future, I'd say that's actually great, because the best way to predict the future is to create it—not from the known, but from the unknown. As

There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.

people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

I don't know, maybe you'd be more interested in me if I were a book.

I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind.

Death is a raw deal for narrative junkies.

Sometimes I think every man wants to be a writer. They want to invent a world with the perfect imaginary woman, someone they can boss around and undress at will. They can work out their own aggressions with a few fictional rape scenes. Then they can send their fictional surrogate in to save her, a white knight – or a fireman! Someone with all the power and all the agency. Real women, on the other hand, have all these tiresome interests of their own, and won't follow an outline.

It sounded like delusion until you remembered that people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

I tell writers not to think about writing short stories or novels. Just write one good scene. And then a novel becomes a bunch of good scenes stacked on top of each other.

He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places.

There's the physical world . . . but there's also our own private inner worlds, the world of our thoughts. A world made of ideas instead of stuff. It's just as real as our world, but it's inside.