Dean Koontz Quotes

Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it.

These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.

I believe in the potential of all things possibly imagined that can be made into a reality.

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

If fear causes you to retreat from your dreams, you will never give the world anything new.

The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

Sometimes the best ideas I have are in my bathtub or in my bed or in my dreams early in the morning before waking up ... I'm like a TV antennae, I catch it all and do it my way.

The power of yes: that's what allows creativity to breathe and to come in. That's what allows your ideas to become living, breathing, moving dreams in action.

Change, create, inspire. Dreams really do work.

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

What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the risk taker. And remembering that, the leader must reach down to the springs that never dry up, the ever-fresh springs of the human spirit.

It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise.

The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.

Never abandon imagination

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

I can imagine anything except having no imagination.

Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.

I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.

So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.

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

There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention.

Dreams, though, are just one kind of inspiration - no more or less special than something in a newspaper article or from the world around you sparking inspiration.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.

I get a lot of work done in my dreams and I don't want to take anybody else's work with me.