E. O. Wilson Quotes

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

If you're not a daydreamer, you haven't got any imagination.

Whatever you can think, you can create; just have a very clear vision... Once you have your snapshot, work on filling in the blanks to get to that place.

I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.

Man lives by imagination.

I've always had a slightly overactive imagination.

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

Imagination decides everything.

I have a very vivid imagination.

I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did.

I have a visual mind, so when I read a book, I get an instant picture in my head and it's very clear.

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things.

I'm a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80 per cent? Don't they think in pictures? I mean if you imagine washing and preparing potatoes you visualise the process, right?

I have a very strong imagination and have since I was a little kid. That is where a lot of my world comes from. It's like I'm off somewhere else. And I can have a problem in life because of that, because I'm always off in some other world thinking about something else. It's constant.

It's important to have an imagination.

I'm always seeing stuff and imagining scenes in my head when I'm making music.

I've always been interested in visualizing something, whether it's a memory or an idea you want to be true. I am a big believer in that. I'm constantly thinking of that. If I can't picture something, then it doesn't make sense to me.

don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.

Everything I think is in pictures.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

The technical process which is interesting in it's own right but I think the creative process is what's more intriguing to me.