Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought system planning intelligence and honest purpose as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Thought is the wind knowledge the sail and mankind the vessel.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

The world is not run by thought nor by imagination but by opinion.

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

In those days it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through and write it down.

I always know exactly where my stories take place which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?

Because of my faith and my imagination I was able to enjoy my childhood even though it was tough.

To them though not to us we were just a catalyst for their imagination.

Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.

That neither our thoughts nor passions nor ideas formed by the imagination exist without the mind is what every body will allow.

Reading a hard copy book and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

Although I do not have a family I have eyes ears and imagination and know as most people know that the importance of one's children is paramount.

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.