Famous Quotes About imagination

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?

I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant,' it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.

To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.