Top 100 Imagination Creativity Quotes
#1. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of humankind.
James Altucher
#2. The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture - religions, justice, trade, the arts, science, technology.
Antonio Damasio
#3. For me, couture is the kingdom of imagination, creativity and experimentation, and this is how I approach it. I do, however, remain pragmatic and realistic.
Giorgio Armani
#4. Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.
Deepak Chopra
#5. Literature is like a subtle concoction of laboriously collected peripherals called words, intellect,thoughts,imagination,creativity and aestheticism brewed together to form a resplendent work of art.
Shilpa Sandesh
#6. Now more than ever, we need people with the qualities Walt had: optimism, imagination, creativity, leadership, integrity, courage, boldness, perseverance, commitment to excellence, reverence for the past, hope for tomorrow and faith in God. How
Pat Williams
#7. Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want - freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.
James Altucher
#8. One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
Kate Forsyth
#10. Creativity is the Blue Heron within us waiting to fly; through her imagination, all things become possible.
Nadia Janice Brown
#11. The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.
Russell Simmons
#12. Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.
Bruce Lee
#13. Books are a gateway to the extraordinary, a portal for the unfettered imagination and limitless creativity.
Diana Jane Heath
#14. Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.
Al Gore
#15. I never knew the wonders of nature, until I began to walk with nature.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#16. I was the baby of the family, but I was never babied, and that allowed me to take whatever artistic temperament I had and apply learned discipline. I was taught how to work. I think that's everything. Creativity and imagination alone are not going to get you there.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#17. When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.
Rollo May
#18. What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be a vehicle for self-conscious evangelism. Christians ought not to be threatened by fantasy and imagination. The Christian is the really free man. He is free to have imagination.
Francis A. Schaeffer
#19. The battle for our culture must be waged at the level of the imagination.
Eric Metaxas
#20. To paraphrase science writer John D. Barrow ... we know they are impossible and yet we can imagine them anyway. Our brains, it turns out, are not prisoners of the world we live in; we can fly free! We can, any time we like, create the impossible.
Robert Krulwich
#21. but it can't tell you where you ought to go, unless where you ought to go is a continuation of where you were going in the past. Creativity, originality, inventiveness, intuition, imagination - "unstuckness," in other words - are completely outside its domain. We
Robert M. Pirsig
#22. An educational foundation is only part of the equation. In order for creativity to flourish and imagination to take hold, we also need to expose our children to the arts from a very young age.
Michelle Obama
#23. Wonderful things are possible when you dream big and use your imagination.
Cat Michaels
#24. Some evidence suggests the left-handers are more likely to have problems with such left-hemisphere functions as reading, writing, speaking and arithmetic; and to be more adept at such right -hemisphere functions as imagination, pattern recognition and general creativity.
Carl Sagan
#26. Love your imagination for it is the heart of your creativity.
Harold W. Becker
#27. It is only when the mind and imagination are enriched from exposure to the world of beauty, that artistic creativity and inspiration truly becomes manifest.
Mark Woollacott
#28. That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.
Zoe Whittall
#30. The inhibitor of creativity isn't potential it's fear. We worry about saying the wrong thing or looking foolish so we govern our imagination.
Josh Linkner
#31. A composition - and every work of art is one - is created in a wondrous interplay between imagination and reason, or between mind and reflection. For there will always be an element of chance in the creative process.
Jostein Gaarder
#32. A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.
Walter Isaacson
#33. It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.
Florence Welch
#34. For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must be free, but another in which his thought must be very precisely regimented; there is poetry in science, but also a lot of bookkeeping.
Peter Medawar
#35. No matter how hard they try, they'll never create anything so perfectly beautiful as what plays out in my own imagination.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#38. We make a home for ourselves, every time we work on something: actors, writers, singers, building these little nests in our gypsy souls, in place of the ones we so seldom seem to make in our own lives. And then suddenly it's over, and we have to start again.
Alan Brennert
#40. Odd, Tom thought, that some girls meant sadness and death. Some girls looked like sunlight, creativity, joy, but they really meant death, and not even because the girls were enticing their victims, in fact one might blame the boys for being deceived by - nothing at all, simply imagination.
Patricia Highsmith
#41. Entire universes flourish in my mind. Sometimes I get lost in there.
Janey Colbourne
#42. Mistress Creation keeps calling my name ... i long for her, and she, for me ... we will be reunited soon. In the interim, i bide my time dreaming of her, writing about her and stretching her across the vast landscape of my imagination. "Soon", i whisper to her, "Soon
Jaeda DeWalt
#43. You can think of creativity as applied imagination.
Ken Robinson
#44. If you design a system to do something specific, don't be surprised if it does it. If you run an education system based on standardization and conformity that suppresses individuality, imagination, and creativity, don't be surprised it that's what it does.
Ken Robinson
#45. Imagination is the hood ornament on your car of creativity.
Gary Busey
#46. Learn to visualize for inspiring creativity, and make imagination rolling into reality.
Pearl Zhu
#47. Reality is only for people with no imagination.
Gavin Freeman
#49. Imagination, abstraction, creativity, and coherence etc are some inherently cognitive and mental elements of architect-wise thinking.
Pearl Zhu
#50. Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.
Mae Jemison
#51. Imagination is our ability to see inwardly and picture there that which has not yet appeared outwardly. Imagination is God's gift to us.
Donald Curtis
#52. Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.
Jan De Bont
#53. Other people's creativity inspires me. Seeing great art, or reading a fab book or watching an interesting documentary or an exciting film - these things make me want to let my own imagination fly.
Kate Cary
#54. Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.
Ken Robinson
#55. The more you think, the less you imagine. The less you imagine, the less you create.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#56. Imagination is an extraordinary resource within each of us with powers not found in ordinary thought processes.
Deborah Sandella
#57. English is like a poetic extension of myself. It holds my creativity and imagination in blissful and inspiring captivity. Though I consider myself not a prisoner, but rather a valued guest of honor.
Storm Princeholm
#59. The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.
Albert Einstein
#60. Take imagination breaks ... Relaxed attention is one of the most important states of mind for creativity, and sometimes it has to be learned.
Nita Leland
#61. Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.
Vladimir Nabokov
#63. A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#64. The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.
Deepak Chopra
#65. It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well ... problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#66. The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God.
Erwin McManus
#67. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the imagination is worth a thousand pictures.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#68. Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#70. Problem-insight precedes solution insight. Someone has to recognise a problem before they start to solve the problem ...
Max McKeown
#71. creativity results from a restlessness to improve the status quo and involves generation of new ideas, use of the imagination, and decision making.
Carolyn Zeisset
#72. With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
Richard Ford
#73. Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.
Ken Robinson
#74. My creativity keeps me from starving. Humanity keeps my life mundane. Loving secures my love for life, but my imagination keeps me sane.
F.K. Preston
#75. Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them.
Brandon Mull
#76. And be grateful that you're a Scanner. Not everyone can have this much fun with nothing but what's between her ears.
Barbara Sher
#77. Normal means lack of imagination and creativity.
Jean Dubuffet
#78. Lewis created a new kind of marriage between theological reflection and poetic imagination.
Alister E. McGrath
#79. Today's make believe is tomorrow's creativity.
K. Lamb
#80. Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.
Ai Weiwei
#82. Creativity is as much about order against freedom; control versus rebellion; organisation against disorder as it is about straightforward imagination.
Carla H. Krueger
#83. Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.
Ken Robinson
#84. Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#85. Companies like Google and Facebook may offer jobs allowing or requiring imagination and creativity, but the whole of Silicon Valley accounts for only 3 percent of national income and a smaller percentage of national employment.
Edmund Phelps
#86. What good is having an imagination if you don't use it?
Miss Lore
#87. Sex, creativity, music, art, family, love, beauty, and creative imagination are all part of the spiritual path in the tantric traditions. So I think that for today that has a lot to say to us about not dividing ourselves from ourselves.
Surya Das
#88. The collective sensation is one's perspective, experience, memory, imagination, and perception.
Pearl Zhu
#89. The great thinkers have long pointed to a connection between creativity and happiness. "Happiness," Kant once said, "is an ideal not of reason but of imagination." In other words, we create our happiness, and the first step in creating anything is to imagine it.
Eric Weiner
#90. Creativity and imagination are not frosting on a cake: They are integral to our sustainability. They are survival mechanisms. They are of the essence of who we are. They constitute our deepest empowerment.
Matthew Fox
#91. Creativity is more important than imagination because it requires action.
Matthew Donnelly
#92. Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.
Wayne W. Dyer
#93. The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.
Frank Barron
#94. The freedom of personal expression, ideas and imagination, working in collaboration with people from diverse backgrounds - is what's needed to spawn creativity.
Larry R. Thompson
#95. Lies can open up the doors to imagination.
Lionel Suggs
#97. Plug into the anti-obvious power of the rebel. Or get those opposing minds to plug into your purpose, to solve your problem, to reimagine your process.
Max McKeown
#98. There's no substitute for imagination, but creativity is only enhanced when forged with life experience.
John Ridley
#99. Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.
John Piper
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