Jan Brett Quotes

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world

Some men see things as they are and say “Why?” I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”

Without imagination, I don't think there's any progress.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

Aren't we all dreamers? It's only because man dreamt of flying that we are travelling in planes. Behind all inventions, we see the dreams of people.

Creating a future requires a profound and yes, unrealistic, vision of what is possible. But it is fantasy and wonder that drive technology and innovation.

I shall always be able to come up with new fantasies. As long as there are people walking around in the street, as long as I have books to read and windows to look out of, I'm not going to use them up.

What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future.

My goal is to get people thinking and trying to wrap their heads around the amazing things that have been achieved and to dream about what will be achieved.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

We're all dreamers.

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.

Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.

I don't ever want to lose that mind-set where you've got to be able to realize different ideas-slash-fantasies-slash-possibilities in your life.

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.

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

My role as a novelist is to explore ideas and imagination, and hopefully that will inspire people from my world to continue dreaming and to believe in dreams.

The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.

We know that dreams fuel innovation.