Giambattista Vico Quotes

I think whatever is going on with my brain, I'm very, very - and I'm not saying this as a positive thing, it's just a fact - I'm very creative. I have a very strong imagination, and have since I was a little kid. That is where a lot of my world comes from. It's like I'm off somewhere else. And I can have a problem in life because of that, because I'm always off in some other world thinking about something else. It's constant.

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

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

I can imagine anything except having no imagination.

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.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

My imagination is so far out there already. People couldn't imagine what goes on in my brain.

I try and stay in my right brain as much as I can, but my left takes over.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge.

Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.

Creativity is a catchall term for a variety of distinct thought processes.

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

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

Imagination grows by exercise.

"Where do you get your ideas?" That's the one question I'm genuinely sick of being asked, and also genuinely fascinated by. What fascinates me is not that people ask the question, but what kind of answer are they really looking for? Because if I tell them the truth, which is "I make them up," they seem very disappointed. They want to know about the trek I do once a year to the mountain.

Stop being so fruitlessly busy and dream. Use your imagination. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your experience and improve your mind and your soul and your world.

All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.

The region belonging to the pure intellect is straitened: the imagination labours to extend its territories, to give it room. She sweeps across the boarders, searching out new lands into which she may guide her plodding brother. The imagination is the light which redeems from the darkness for the eyes of the understanding. Novalis says, 'The imagination is the stuff of the intellect' -affords, that is, the material upon which the intellect works.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

The imagination is both interpretative and creative in nature.

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.