“Before insights arrive, one must undergo an incubation period.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“In weariness, existence is like the reminder of a commitment to exist, with all the seriousness and harshness of an irrevocable contract. One has to do something, one has to aspire after and undertake [...] In weariness we want to escape existence itself, and not only one of its landscapes in a longing for more beautiful skies. An evasion without an itinerary and without an end, it is not trying to come ashore somewhere.”
Source: Existence and Existents
“The future does not exist today, so we have the opportunity to imagine it, shape it and navigate towards it.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Even if the good old days never existed, the fact that we can conceive of such a world is, in fact, an affirmation of the human spirit.”
Source: This is Orson Welles
“It is imagination again which adds the piquant charm of voluptuousness to the tenderness of an amorous heart; which makes tenderness bud in the study of the philosopher and of the dusty pedant, which, in a word, creates scholars as well as orators and poets.”
Source: Man a Machine
“Invention is essentially different from reverie; if some fail to recognize the difference that is because they have not themselves experienced both. Anyone who has will understand me. In my day-dreams I was training myself to be a fool; in mapping and chronicling Animal-Land I was training myself to be a novelist.”
Source: Surprised by Joy, Reflections on the Psalms, The Four Loves, and The Business of Heaven
“Sooner or later, due to the limits of their feeble imagination, men turn sex into a power play”
Source: Apophenia: Myths, Tales and Legends from an Imaginary World
“I dream [a cartoon] into being by imagining how I want it to be. I lead with my imagination and, inevitably, the brush follows.”
“The act of art is metamorphosis.”
Source: Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung
“YOU're just what he'd have dreamed himself to be. You - he - hath to write me long letters, full of corny humor, to my Rockettalk Department, and you called me Rocky, and you didn't like our concerts because the monsters weren't horrible enough -'
He stopped. And again his mouth fell open.”
Source: "FREDRIC BROWN" BOOKS: What Mad Universe / Space on My Hands / Honeymoon in Hell