Edmund Clarence Stedman Quotes

It was really a magical moment, to see this idea that's in your head.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

Dream more than others think practical.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

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

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.

I don't ever want to lose that mind-set where you've got to be able to realize different ideas-slash-fantasies-slash-possibilities in your life.

Imagination - that's the future for us.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

My role as a novelist is to explore ideas and imagination, and hopefully that will inspire people from my world to continue dreaming and to believe in dreams.

I'm a creator at heart.

Some men see things as they are and say “Why?” I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world

Hope is a key ingredient in what drives creativity - the hope of bringing to life what exists in the imagination, of transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary - so it's completely logical that Hollywood is the entertainment capital of the world. It's full of people bursting with the desire to make the world laugh, cry, think.

Creativity is something that is forever.