J. K. Rowling Quotes

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

Empathy is not as complicated when you have some aspects in common with your character; it's not impossible to know someone who's like you in many ways but different in one. This is true especially if you are a reader. Reading makes you accustomed to inhabiting other lives and sensibilities.

When I started my hotel company, Joie de Vivre, at the age of 26, I saw this venture as my ticket to freedom.

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.

Imagination is the air of mind.

Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.

Imagination rules the world.

I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy.

Imagination decides everything.

I truly believe in the value that stories have in being able to elevate humanity and make the world a better place.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

As human beings, we aren't as individual as we'd like to believe we are. And I think that's what makes acting possible. Despite the fact that I have not experienced something, I have it in my human capacity to imagine it and to put myself in someone else's shoes, and to take someone else's circumstances personally.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

She has no imagination and that means no compassion.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.