Quotes About Imagination And Creativity

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.

Jan De Bont

#4. Normal means lack of imagination and creativity.

Jean Dubuffet

#5. 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

#6. Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.

Wayne W. Dyer

#7. Therein lies the key, I think, to Einstein's brilliance and the lessons of his life. As a young student he never did well with rote learning. And later, as a theorist, his success came not from the brute strength of his mental processing power but from his imagination and creativity.

Walter Isaacson

#8. A book is like a trip to a world of imagination and creativity, and those who don't read will for ever stay in the same place.

Dulce Rodrigues

#9. Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and there is already a narrative arc. What makes it harder is that you are not free to use your imagination and creativity to fill in any missing gaps within the story.

Amy Bloom

#10. When you imagine and clearly articulate your goals in writing, you access the creative energy of your right brain. Imagination and creativity allow you to find solutions to problems that were not previously available to you and give your left brain an opportunity to be receptive to new ideas.

Julie Connor

#11. We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.

Bob Goff

#12. 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.

Anthony Browne

#13. Besides the soothing effect it has, I think my favorite part of writing is being able to use my imagination and creativity to make new ideas and people and situations come to life.

Christopher Paul Curtis

#14. Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.

Ann Patchett

#15. The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.

Vladimir Kramnik

#16. These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.

Ken Robinson

#17. 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

#18. Books are a gateway to the extraordinary, a portal for the unfettered imagination and limitless creativity.

Diana Jane Heath

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. Wonderful things are possible when you dream big and use your imagination.

Cat Michaels

#26. 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

#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. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. Learn to visualize for inspiring creativity, and make imagination rolling into reality.

Pearl Zhu

#35. 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

#36. Imagination, abstraction, creativity, and coherence etc are some inherently cognitive and mental elements of architect-wise thinking.

Pearl Zhu

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.

Vladimir Nabokov

#44. A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#45. The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God.

Erwin McManus

#46. Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. Lewis created a new kind of marriage between theological reflection and poetic imagination.

Alister E. McGrath

#51. 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

#52. Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

Ken Robinson

#53. Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#54. 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

#55. The collective sensation is one's perspective, experience, memory, imagination, and perception.

Pearl Zhu

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. Creative person's spirit and soul dance with passion and imagination.

Pearl Zhu

#61. I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in their natural course.

Michael Atiyah

#62. Creativity is a muscle, and when we flex the muscle of our imagination, we find inspiration.

Inbar Shahar

#63. It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

Carlos Castaneda

#64. Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams.

Sigmund Freud

#65. On Genres: Do not label me. Do not place me in a box, because when you do, you place limits on my imagination and limits on my creativity, when there are none...

Sean Thomas

#66. Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Bernard Baruch

#67. We're not talking about your life. We're talking about your writing. Your imagination. Your creativity. And it's time you learned there's a big difference between your writing and your life. To do it right, your writing takes an incredible amount of work. Your life takes more.

Jennifer Echols

#68. Creativity is a flow, an abstract and an imagination.

Pearl Zhu

#69. Everyone has creative potential. Creativity involves using your imagination and inventiveness. Your unique expression of yourself is your creativity...Creativity can be magic when visiting people who are ill.

Patch Adams

#70. People won't see Imagination in something that doesn't relate to their experience because of their own mental limitations. I want people to escape the expected and ordinary, to escape the regular expectations of a story, and truly step into a different world of literature.

Lionel Suggs

#71. For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must match what is already known. Scientific creativity is imagination in a straitjacket.

James Gleick

#72. Innovation is a question of ambition, and imagination, not a question of investment only.

Pearl Zhu

#73. Nature we have always with us, an in exhaustible store-house of that which moves the heart, appeals to the mind and fires the imagination -- health to the body, a stimulus to the intellect, and joy to the soul.

John Burroughs

#74. Creativity is a song of knowledge, imagination, and action.

Debasish Mridha

#75. It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at the same time frightening. The best ones, to me, have a life of their own.

Luther E. Vann

#76. Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination.

Robert Genn

#77. Only God is the Giver and Master of Creativity and imagination because they are gifts that can only come from Him Alone!

Cheyenne Mitchell

#78. Creativity, imagination and talent can only get you so far -- you still need luck and money -- And that's why they call it Show Business and not Show Art

Wayne J. Keeley

#79. 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

#80. If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.

Max McKeown

#81. Imagination is our inner-child and creativity, its playground.

Jaeda DeWalt

#82. Creativity can be defined as an original act of imagination that brings something into existence. It is a desire and innate drive to make new connections between things, to give form, and to transform.

Shaun McNiff

#83. The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free.

Yanni

#84. Anything creative requires a bit of acting,and filling in blanks with imagination.

Christina Westover

#85. I know kids who say they have nothing to do and then go plop themselves down in front of the television to watch a movie or play Nintendo or Xbox. I think there is nothing better for killing creativity and imagination.

Alexandra Adornetto

#86. Let your creative and imaginative mind run freely; it will take you places you never dreamed of and provide breakthroughs that others once thought were impossible.

Idowu Koyenikan

#87. We must all cultivate our own creativity because we each have a God-given imagination that has the ability to bless generations and eternity.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#88. And one of the things that I've always loves about children is their vivid, unrestrained, and far-reaching imaginations - the depth and breadth of their creativity.

Kevin Clash

#89. It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

Henry David Thoreau

#90. Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one's imagination crumbles before the hopelessness of the reality. Every day fresh experiences bring fresh disappointments.

Hector Berlioz

#91. The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.

Wayne Shorter

#92. God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

Erwin McManus

#93. I do think that there is a profound reservoir of creativity and imagination in everyone I've ever met, and sometimes if someone is persistent and perversely obstinate enough to persevere, then they want to be helped. There is a way to help them.

Philip Schultz

#94. Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of art, but unlike art-charlatans and all kinds of quacks will not succeed there.

Meir Shalev

#95. A genius masters the art of observation, and unites with the source of imagination to create advancements in the cause for human evolution.

T.F. Hodge

#96. Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

George Bernard Shaw

#97. Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

Bob Dylan

#98. Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.

Alex Faickney Osborn

#99. 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

#100. Nothing is more important than creative play through imagination.
Never stop playing, and never stop imagining!

Carmela Dutra