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Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be read more
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing-are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea.
The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea.
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than read more
The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!
Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!
Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function. -John Pfeiffer.
Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function. -John Pfeiffer.
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... read more
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.