Ursula Markham > Quotes

“What is a creative person? It is someone who is willing to see the whole of life as an adventure, filled to the brim with exciting possibilities. He or she is willing where necessary to set aside old boundaries and to discover a new way of looking at things.”
― Ursula Markham, The Elements of Visualization

“Of course it is easier to sit the young child in front of the television than it is to read to him or to encourage him to read for himself thereby opening a whole new world of imagination. But these children are our creative adults of the future. They will become our scientists, our artists, our inventors - and the teacher of the following generation. Surely they deserve the opportunity to develop their creative imagination at as early an age as possible.”
― Ursula Markham, The Elements of Visualization

“There is the world of difference between failing at something and being a failure - but many people do not differentiate.”
― Ursula Markham, The Elements of Visualization

“It is only your own ego which can feel embarrassment. Are you frightened of making mistakes and feeling foolish? Why? No one is perfect so you are bound to make some mistakes; so am I; so is everyone else.
But it is how we react after making those mistakes which is important. We can apologies; we can try to put matters right; we can acknowledge the errors. And that is all we can do.”
― Ursula Markham, The Elements of Visualization

“The saddest people are those who talk about the books they could have written, the garments they could have designed, or the pictures they could have painted - if only ... you do not have to be one of those people.”
― Ursula Markham, The Elements of Visualization

“Never believe that you cannot change. An audio cassette, a video cassette and a computer disc have all been programmed and each will have certain information recorded upon it. But each of them, using the proper technique, can have the earlier programming erased when you record over it. In precisely the same way, although you and I have been programmed by events and people in our past, there is no reason why we cannot "record over" that previous programming and change ourselves and the way we behave. We do not have to use complicated machinery to do this - merely our own minds.”
― Ursula Markham, The Elements of Visualization

“Inner creativity is always there - it just has to be released from its prison.”
― Ursula Markham, The Elements of Visualization

“There is no point in having the idea for a wonderful novel if you have never learned to read and write.”
― Ursula Markham, The Elements of Visualization

“There is nothing wrong in wanting money for purpose, however - perhaps to do some good in world - but be cautions about wanting riches for themselves”
― Ursula Markham, The Elements of Visualization

“There is often a great difference between what we want and what we think we want, and this is complicated still further by the fact that we are often greatly influenced by what others want for us”
― Ursula Markham, The Elements of Visualization

“Remember that it is the combination of talents of the director and the actor which produce a perfect performance - and since both of them are you, you just cannot go wrong !”
― Ursula Markham, The Elements of Visualization

“A seed sown in the earth in ideal conditions will still choose its own moment to show its first tender shoots, and there is no guarantee that you will be standing there watching at the time.”
― Ursula Markham, The Elements of Visualization

“A child knows how to image before he know how to reason. He is born with a naturally vivid and fertile imagination but he has to learn how to use logic and reason.”
― Ursula Markham, The Elements of Visualization