Tim O'Brien Quotes

Man lives by imagination.

The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination.

There is no oil so thick as to destroy the imagination.

These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.

This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain.

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Imagination! My problem is that I have so many ideas, I never have enough time to use them all. Just the other day I thought up eleven things I could do with a flowerpot. Eleven! Three of those things didn't even involve plants.

Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.

I really think one of the greatest allies you can have is the imagination of your audience.

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.

Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.

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.

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking.

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.

I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.

We should use our imagination more than our memory.

British press think entirely in clichés, and when they do come across creative work, they think that it must be based on something, because they don't realize that you can create things that aren't based on things.

People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just think of it as daydreaming, or wasting time. Kids get told not to make things up, and in my case, nobody told me long enough, or it just didn't stick.

One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.

The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might not be why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.

Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else ... may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds.