Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We're always trying to transcend.
Multitasking, throughput, efficiency - these are excellent machine concepts, useful in the design of computer systems. But are they principles that nurture human thought and imagination?
Courses in the humanities, in particular, often seem impractical, but they are vital, because they stretch your imagination and challenge your mind to become more responsive, more critical, bigger.
Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
I loved stories as a kid, both being read to me and enjoying on my own. All these stories inspired my imagination, and that's what I have always aimed at doing for my readers: ignite their imaginations.
One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.
Illustrations can be a big window: a looking glass into the author's imagination.
I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.
Your imagination is your most important tool as an actor, as cheesy as that sounds.
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work.
