Quotes on Imagination

After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Funk is the unending cycle of life. It's the ultimate concept—wherever your imagination will take it.

I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, as we wrongly think, but that the imagination lives in the child.

I came from a childhood where I spent a lot of time alone and a lot of time just living with my imagination, and a certain amount of the adult world was kind of alienating.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.

It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.

I discovered writing children's books was a way to keep living in my imagination like a child. So I wrote a number of books before I started 'Magic Tree House.' Then, once I got that, I never looked back because I could be somewhere different in every single book.

The imagination is an innate gift, but it needs refinement and cultivation; this is what the humanities provide.

The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so narrow that I don't see how they can imagine beyond what their senses can verify. We know from science that there are entire worlds that our senses can't verify.

If people long to create a better world, then we must use our platform to nurture imagination - hopeful ideas, fresh alternatives, belief that the way things are isn't the way things need to be.

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.

There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not important. What is important is that they are there. these worlds provide an alternative. Provide an escape. Provide a threat. Provide a dream, and power; provide refuge, and pain. They give your world meaning. They do not exist; and thus they are all that matters.