Stephen Vizinczey Quotes

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

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

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

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.

I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it.

Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.

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.

Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.

If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring adherence to the way things can be, and thought a little more imaginatively about the way things might be.

I can imagine anything except having no imagination.

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a controlling factor in national safety and welfare

I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.

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.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.

Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.

My husband says I have too much imagination, but I don't think a writer can have too much imagination!

I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.

You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.

Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

Ever since I was a little child, I refused to see movies of books that I loved. Because you already know what Heidi looks like and she doesn't look like Shirley Temple.