Actively Quote by Michael Leunig

Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.

— Carl Jung

you know, a daydream properly utilized can be the most powerful force in the universe. One need only dream of freedom to begin to…

— William Joyce

“As the Western world has invested every aspect of its waking life with visual order, with procedures and spaces that are uniform, continuous and…

— Marshall McLuhan

In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is told that…

— Philip Wylie

A constant human error: to believe in an end to one's fantasies. Our daydreams are the measure of our unreachable truth. The secret of…

— Floriano Martins

Finally, it is important to make it clear that imagination is not an exercise for those detached from reality, those who live in the…

— Paulo Freire

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

— John Irving

“From the perspective of the consciousness disciplines, our ordinary state of waking consciousness is severely suboptimal. Rather than contradicting the Western paradigm, this perspective…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Daydreams are doable. The turn-on is not in scale, spectacle, or cost. It's in the doing. Anything you haven't done is an adventure. Wanting…

— Malcolm Forbes

Children are trained to think linearly instead of imaginatively; they are taught to read slowly and carefully, and are discouraged from daydreaming. They are…

— Tony Buzan

The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind…

— Paul MacCready

For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.

— Beatrix Potter