Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Think bigger. Forget limits. Embrace the idea of endless possibility.... It will change you.
I think somewhere around high school, your brain starts to gel, to harden. Before that, there’s this time where anything is possible and the more things that you artistically and educationally have in your repertoire, the more you become a child of larger possibilities.
If we are generous enough, we can stretch our souls everywhere and everywhen else. If we succeed in doing so, we shall discover that our present embraces the past and the future and that the whole world is our province.
At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.
Rich people think BIG. Poor people think small.
One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.
It takes the same effort to think small than to think big. But to think big frees you from the insignificant details.
You haven't experienced anything until you've been to Africa. You know the world is bigger than you are after you see Africa.
One of the wonderful aspects of the human imagination is its power to break through the barriers of time and space. It can see things not as they are but as the can be.
In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.
[Jack] Kerouac looking at the fellaheen worlds. Looking at other cultures. Welcoming it, curious. Really stepping outside his own limited, whatever that narrow world was. It's amazing to think we can do it. We can have that same kind of trajectory of mind.
There is no place for little minds in a great work
Lazy thinking is not creative or productive.
Small thoughts fit easily into a closed mind, but big thoughts require an open one.
Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.
You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48 box of the United States, you're going to be frustrated by its limitations. You gotta think outside the box.
When you stand amid the unending vistas of Kenya's Maasai Mara, it's impossible to remain focused inward. Your mind expands to the distant horizons.
Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.
Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.
To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.
We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.
Imagination has to do with one's awareness of the reality of other people as well as of one's own reality. Imagination is a bridge between the provincialism of the self and the great world.
An enlightened mind is not hoodwinked; it is not shut up in a gloomy prison till it thinks the walls of its dungeon the limits of the universe, and the reach of its own chain the outer verge of intelligence.
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
