Fred Rogers Quotes

I loved playing with the mix of fantastical inventions and real ones. I hope kids will start logbooks to record their own creations.

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.

I love connecting with kids. I love connecting with children of all ages to keep their imagination active because that's the key to happiness and imagination and creativity.

Creativity and the world of the imagination - the beauty of what we see as a child and the kind of play that we experience as a child - can be a way for us to survive tough times.

One way to think about play, is as the process of finding new combinations for known things--combinations that may yield new formsof expression, new inventions, new discoveries, and new solutions....It's exactly what children's play seems to be about and explains why so many people have come to think that children's play is so important a part of childhood--and beyond.

Creativity is one of the most important brain functions in developing youth. It is the ultimate road to invention. I believe it is really important to both nurture and encourage this in children - and adults, too!

I always knew I wanted to create. I used to sit in my room for hours drawing and making things. I once got into trouble for cutting up my mother's lampshades to make a dress. I was three.

Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.

A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.

I think in order to keep America great, we have to keep America creative.

Wallace and Gromit's contraptions are created purely for gags, but we all have the urge to invent - especially children. If they're bored, kids will make something from cardboard boxes, yoghurt pots, tape and elastic bands. Often, those constructions are the best.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively.

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

It's easier for a kid to have fun and have an imagination.

Ideas are the root of creation.

Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

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

I think that children are very smart.

I was never interested in 'making up' games when I was little. I wanted to create something real.

I don't think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it's a combination of memory and invention.

I've always been interested in creating things for kids.

Kids want to build things, and we encourage them to be as imaginative as possible on the site.