How to become more creative. What exists today was once only imagined! Imagination and creativity are boundless. This slide show will motivate you to be your most creative self and mute your inner critics. Perfect for teachers, students, designers, artists, writers, and all people wanting to bust through creative blocks.

1. THE POWER
OF
IMAGINATION:
Motivate Yourself to be
Amazingly Creative
Presented by:
Bruce Black Art.com

2. What is imagination?
• Imagination is governed by no rules or
laws either physical or civil.
• Imagination comes from a place of
unlimited energy and capacity.
• Creativity is the physical
embodiment of the imagination.
• “Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world” Albert Einstein

3. Einstein on the Imagination
• “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination
will take you everywhere.”
• “Imagination is everything. It is the preview
of life's coming attractions.”
• “The true sign of intelligence is not
knowledge but imagination.”

4. “What is now proved was only once
imagined.” -William Blake
I then shouted into M [the mouthpiece] the following sentence: "Mr.
Watson, come here -- I want to see you." To my delight he came and
declared that he had heard and understood what I said.
When Alexander
Graham Bell
invented the
telephone, it must
have seemed like
magic!

5. uConsider the evolution of the telephone. It began with
Alexander Graham Bell taking the germ of an idea and making
it real. At that point, the collective imagination of society began
to grow. In 1966 the TV Series, Star Trek, introduced the idea
of a phone without cords that you could flip open and talk into.
At the time of the series, this was pure imagination or science
fiction. It wasn’t until 1973 that Motorola made the first
portable phone, weighing 2.5 pounds. More and more
designers and engineers applied their creativity to this idea of a
portable technology culminating with the development of the
iPhone in 2007. At this point, reality overtook science fiction.
The iPhone can do things that even the writers of Star Trek
Could not imagine! That is the power of creativity and the way
in which one idea sparks another and another.

6. “Logic will get you from
A to B. Imagination will
take you everywhere.”
-Einstein
IMAGINATION
Beam me up Scotty!
The evolution of creativity

7. How imagination allows us to fly
Before the early 1900’s, if you told someone
that one day humans would have the ability
to fly through the air at supersonic speeds
and land safely, you would have been
considered crazy.
Let’s examine the evolution of flight for a
moment.

8. 1485-1500
Leonardo da Vinci designs flying
machines and parachute.
1903
Orville and Wilbur Wright make first
powered, sustained, and controlled
flight in a heavier-than-air flying
machine.
1969
U.S. astronauts Neil A. Armstrong
and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., are the first
to walk on the moon.
2000
First crew arrives to take up
residence in the International
Space Station.
IMAGINATION is a living and evolving thing: WHAT IS FIRST
IMPOSSIBLE EVOLVES TO BECOME THE STANDARD.

9. Let your imagination run
wild. Eventually, reality will
catch up to it.
Mars Rover Launch: June 10th, 2003.

10. Never let someone else define your
imagination no matter how well
meaning they are!
• Parents
• Teachers
• Experts
• Friends
• Critics
“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt
separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and
breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is
a sword that kills.” BUDDHA
We all have experienced someone trying to
tell us how we should live or what we
should believe in. People who are negative
and do not support your imagination are not
necessarily smarter. Perhaps they are simply
followers and want you to be one too. Lead
the way and remove negative people from
your life!

11. Creativity, like
most things,
requires practice
and use.
Practice removing self
doubting thoughts from
your mind. They are
anchors to your future
success.
•I AM ……..(positive thought)
No Way! Everyone knows fire comes from
the sky, not from sticks. You should give up!
YOU ARE WHAT YOU IMAGINE YOURSELF TO BE!

12. If I told you, in order to jump off
of a thousand-foot cliff and live,
all you needed was imagination,
would you believe me?

13. Of course you can jump off a cliff and live! Think
hang glider, parachute, bungee-cord.

14. Leonardo da Vinci was an idiot.
(He actually thought man could fly!.........oh yeah, he can.)
Da Vinci invented many things in his lifetime that were impossible in his
age. It took future generations to fully realize his genius…..scuba diving,
submarines, flying machines, machine guns, armored cars, etc., etc.

15. What is your concept of self?
• How you imagine yourself to be has the
power to make you who you are.
• “Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are
not created; they are only manifested by
the arrangement of your mind – that is, by
your concept of yourself, and your concept
of yourself is all that you accept and
consent to as true.” -Neville Goddard

16. Impression—I was certain of it. I was just telling myself that, since I was impressed, there
had to be some impression in it ... and what freedom, what ease of workmanship!
Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape. -Louis Leroy
It is a good thing that Monet did not listen to his critics.
Impression:
The Sunrise,
1873

17. By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist,
we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not
sufficiently desired. -Nikos Kasantzakis (Zorba the Greek).
Some Birds and Bees see in the ultraviolet spectrum.
Some bats can see both ultraviolet and infrared light.
Imagine what we are not seeing?

18. Your Dreams are Your Own
• Know the difference between dreams and goals. Goals
take you to your dreams.
• Dream large. Dream larger than even your
perceived ability to fulfill your dream.
• Dream your own dream. It’s your life and your
imagination.
• Hang a DO NOT DISTURB sign on your imagination.
I imagine that yes is the only living thing.-e. e. cummings

19. Use Your Imagination to Create Your Future
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
I tell you yesterday is a wind gone down,
a sun dropped in the west.
I tell you there is nothing in the world
only an ocean of tomorrows,
a sky of tomorrows.
Carl Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967)
Caspar David Friedrich Monk by the sea 1809
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes
I tell you yesterday is a wind gone down,
a sun dropped in the west.
I tell you there is nothing in the world
only an ocean of tomorrows,
a sky of tomorrows.
From Carl sandburg’s poem “Prairie.”

20. PRACTICE
• KEEP A JOURNAL OF YOUR IDEAS
• KEEP A SKETCHBOOK OF DRAWINGS
• DON’T WORRY IF YOUR IDEAS SEEM RIDUCUOUS,
EVEN TO YOU. NO ONE ELSE NEEDS TO KNOW…..YET.
• SET SOME SMALL MEASURABLE GOALS TO GET YOU
GOING.
• THINK OF YOUR DREAMS AS A MOUNTAIN THAT YOU
MUST CLIMB ONE STEP AT A TIME. YOU WILL GET
THERE AS LONG AS YOU DON’T GIVE UP.
• KEEP PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT YOU NEAR AND
DISREGARD ALL OTHERS!

21. When you walk to your dream your
dream walks to you.
“Disregard appearances, conditions, in fact all
evidence of your senses that deny the fulfillment of
your desire. Rest in the assumption that you are
already what you want to be, for in that determined
assumption you and your Infinite Being are
merged in creative unity, and with your Infinite
Being all things are possible.”
Neville

22. 3 Important Things
• “Imagination is everything. It is the preview
of life's coming attractions.” -Einstein
• “If one advances confidently in the
direction of his dreams, and endeavors to
live the life which he has imagined, he will
meet with a success unexpected in
common hours.” -Henry David Thoreau
• “If all that now exists was once imagined, then what
you want to exist for you in the future must now be
imagined.” -Dyer

23. You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and
trust.
You were born with ideals and
dreams.
You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings.
You are not meant for crawling, so
don’t.
You have wings.
Learn to use them and fly.
-Rumi
Rumi, (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273) was a 13th-century Persian Muslim poet,
jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic.
MEMORIZE THIS AND REPEAT DAILY

24. End Slide Show
Presented by: Bruce Black Art.com