Alexander McCall Smith Quotes

You need to be imagining all the time, imagining yourself outside the walls of your own skull.

MAN’S ONLY LIMITATION, within reason, LIES IN HIS DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF HIS IMAGINATION.

The very word possibility creates a mental climate conducive to creativity.

For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.

You're only limited by your passion and your imagination. Be open to the possibilities, take chances.

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.

The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.

And it’s only by going nowhere - by sitting still or letting my mind relax - that I find that the thoughts that come to me unbidden are far fresher and more imaginative than the ones I consciously seek out.

I'm always working on something. I wish I had more time for free-thinking and brainstorming new ideas. That's not to say my mind doesn't wander, but I find myself wishing for more of that kind of time.

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.

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

Creativity...involves the power to originate, to break away from the existing ways of looking at things, to move freely in the realm of the imagination, to create and recreate worlds fully in one's mind-while supervising all this with a critical inner eye.

All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.

You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.

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

Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination.

Stretch your mind and fly.

The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around.

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.

You have to leave room in life to dream.

Anything you can imagine, you can create.

You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.

So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there is some evidence that a rich internal fantasy life is as good and necessary for a child as healthy soil is for a plant, for much the same reasons.

Let an idea swim to the surface like a fish in a pool...let the mind drift to the vision.