Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free.
My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
Mr. Bergman had a great imagination and saw the possibilities within every one of his actors, and he gave us great challenges. It was very inspiring.
I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need.
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.
Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.
It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.
Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?
Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.
Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.
I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole.
I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story set in some imagined future.
The idea of a young girl who knows exactly what she wants with her life is the most threatening and unappealing thing you can imagine.
It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true.
Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.
People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.
I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.
