The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations.
I believe there are Steve Jobses all around us. Really, what is happening is that they're being edited out of importance.
Dreamers only dream, but creators bring their dreams into reality.
There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots.
The dreamers are the saviors of the world.
The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.
I’ve always been interested in leaders and rule breakers and artists and politicians.
I don't think generally speaking, there are a lot of innovators and inventors. Many of the designers take what exists already and update it or make it relevant for today. But true inventors have never been seen before. Bill Gates is a real inventor. I don't think fashion designers invent anything new. They innovate new ways to make fashion.
I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft
First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.
People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.
I lived in Scotland a long time, and I became aware of Mogwai really from the beginning. They seemed to be fusing hard music structure and sort of raw sonics. They're just very creative thinkers, musical thinkers.
The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.
Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.
The people who are interested in my work - they're quite far-out.
We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and invocations of equations. These are the tools we employ, and we know many things.
Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.
In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz.
Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . . whose thoughts and emotions are not subject to the dominion of the herd.
Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.
