Robin Sloan Quotes

The greatest gift that you were ever given was the gift of your imagination.

Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story- a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination.

I find it inspiring and I always think when I'm working on something new, whether it's a new kind of character or a new kind of story or new kind of camera, it gets my creative wheels spinning.

I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.

Imagination is the source of all human achievement.

Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource - you are not going to run out of it - so don't be afraid to use it.

The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.

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

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

Imagination is more important than information. Einstein said that, and he should know. And they come. And they look. And we push. And they fly. We to stay and die on our beds. They to go and die howsoever, yet inspiring those who come after them to find their own edge. And fly.

When we use our imagination properly it is our greatest friend; it goes belyond reason and is the only light that takes us everywhere.

People ask me whether I think that one day I might wake up one morning and run dry, but I've had the opposite feeling - that I would die before I had time to write all the ideas in my drawer.

True understanding is the spur of genius

I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.

We start out as pretty creative beings... Children let their imaginations take them to place they've never seen and do things that seem impossible. We encourage it as fun and playtime, but we should celebrate it as the potential for great discovery and accomplishment.

Will you ever run out of creative ideas and expressions? Ha! The more creative ideas you have, the more you will discover. Creativity is a tree with countless branches that never stop blossoming.

[My work] just develops and develops, and I'm very nicely served by the universe: just as I'm ready to take the conversation further with myself, some other individual pops up, like David McKenzie did, with this idea of making this film [Teknolust], and provides exactly the leap to the next adventure.

I do know that kind fate allowed me to find a couple of nice ideas after many years of feverish labor.

Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.

I definitely go through periods where I'm in a particular mood, or there's a consistent imaginative context that I feel I'm in, and I'm drawn to certain things. I can sometimes feel it when I'm moving away from something that I was once interested in - an idea or an exploration of particular relationships. I go, 'Well, I think I've done that and I don't want to do it again.'

The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending.

The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.

Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders.