Imaginative Thinking Quotes

Creativity is what makes humanity move. We were created to participate.

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.

I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the more completely it is thought.

The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man.

Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives...most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results of creativity...when we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

As a small child, I could watch anything happen and tell a story, and it was funny.

A commander in chief with military experience might be able to prod a conservative military into thinking more imaginatively.

We cannot create what we can't imagine.

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.

Inspiring passion in children for books, and the world of imagination and creativity fuelled by them, is a fundamental reason for why the Children's Laureate post exists.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

The way I'm doing it is I'm trying to think to myself, "Okay, I have the name Superman, and he's going to be a guy that deserves the name 'Superman.' I'm trying to forget about Krypton, about The Daily Planet what would I do if I was thinking it up?" I can do it any way at all..I can make him an Eskimo midget who's toothless and blind... I can do anything. It's difficult .

The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.

I have a hyper-active imagination, my mind tends to jump around a little, and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality.

I believe that fantasy in the meaning of imagination is very important. We shouldn't stick too close to everyday reality but give room to the reality of the heart, of the mind, and of the imagination.

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

I remember how my world expanded in amazing fashion by that magical operation of translating words into images, and images into stories.

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.

The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

As a child I did a lot of imaginary bits, you know. It depends on the individual, I enjoyed then knocking the nail in, I enjoy knocking nails in walls to hang pictures up, but I also enjoy thinking 'I'm gonna do that' but I actually won't do it, I enjoy imagining doing things just as much.

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

A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.