W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

No matter what age you are, there's a lot of room for learning.

No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.

Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking.

The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.

I have an active imagination.

Imagination grows by exercise.

MAN’S ONLY LIMITATION, within reason, LIES IN HIS DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF HIS IMAGINATION.

Without creation, what are we but stalled in life?

Imagination comes of not having things.

What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.

Play exercises both your physical and creative muscles. It helps you move around, solve problems, challenge yourself, and think in new ways. Not to mention that it's just plain fun.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Imagination decides everything.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Imagination is an instrument of survival.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did.

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic.