Some quotes on creativity and imagination, two things which propell me:

 

“Your focus determines your reality.” --Qui-Gon Jinn, Star Wars Episode I

“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.” --John Lennon

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” --Carl Sagan

 

“You can't do it unless you can imagine it.” --George Lucas

 

“Live out of your imagination, not your history.” --Stephen Covey

 

"Your imagination is your preview to life’s coming attractions." --Albert Einstein

 

“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.” --Orison Swett Marden

 

“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.” --Simone Weil

 

"Change is created by those whose imaginations are bigger than their circumstances" –Anonymous

 

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." --Carl Sagan

 

“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’" --George Bernard Shaw

 

“There is only one admirable form of imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality; that it makes things happen.” --Sean O’Faolain

 

“Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.” –Lin Yutang

 

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." --Albert Einstein

 

“You use a mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”--George Bernard Shaw

 

“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”--Pablo Picasso

 

“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’--George Bernard Shaw

 

“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”--Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

“Writing slows my thoughts down. It helps me to organize, connect ideas, and above all, remember.”--Buddha Thu

 

“Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.”--Lin Yutang

 

“The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.”--Saul Steinberg

 

“My mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.’ Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”--Pablo Picasso

 

“Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.”--Arthur Koestler

 

“Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.”--Rollo May