Napoleon Hill Quotes

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.

Imagination is the will of things. . . .

There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction writer envisions another world, and then some space probe finds it. If you believe in something strongly enough, I think you can make it happen.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.

I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.

When I make a film, I don't watch a lot of other films. I read a lot; I try to read poems, things that can liberate my human condition, that make me go away... I spend a lot of the time doing nothing, just concentrating on the subject. Sometimes I'll sit in my chair for two or three hours without doing anything.

That's what I find so special: when you actually imagine something. But really, when it comes to you in a dream, and then you can bring it to life on the screen, it's very powerful.

If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.

Your imagination creates the inner picture that allows you to participate in the act of creation.

Imagination is the beginning of reality.

You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.

If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.

Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

Everybody struggles to come up with stuff that no one has ever seen before. It's a fine line between trying to get creative and doing something that's new, fresh and different - yet, for me, something that's based in reality that would actually work in these situations. These are the keys to great fight scenes and action sequences.

I dream up things, and then I convince myself that they're possible.

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.