“I’ve been amazed as an adult that most people don’t have stories constantly playing in their minds.”
“Imagining the interplay of metaruptions is a creative endeavor, not a number-crunching exercise.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“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.”