Saul Bellow Quotes

All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

Imagination is the source of all human achievement.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

Every bush can burn if you fire it with your imagination.

Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

If you want to be creative, go where your questions lead you.

Leaders, if you allow wonder to shut down in you, you will shut it down in everyone around you.

Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.

Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.

Sometimes the best ideas I have are in my bathtub or in my bed or in my dreams early in the morning before waking up ... I'm like a TV antennae, I catch it all and do it my way.

Change, create, inspire. Dreams really do work.

The greatest gift that you were ever given was the gift of your imagination.

Flood your life with ideas from many sources. Creativity needs to be exercised like a muscle. If you don't use it, you'll lose it!

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

Imagination comes in after we have experience.

Waiting for inspiration is like standing at the airport waiting for a train.

One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination.

From nothing I have created another entirely new world.

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

Creativity comes from constraint.

Knowing a lot...is a springboard to creativity.

Curiosity is the key to creativity.