On the topic of dreaming

This was not originally thought to be a post about quotes and their origin, but it ended up beginning like that anyway - as I dived into the quote:

If you can dream it, you can do it.

I found that it did not originate from Walt Disney personally, eventhough it is attributed to him by many people. It seems to be a quote by Tom Fitzgerald, who put the words together while working as  "imagineer" - a job I would love to have, dragged together from "imagination" and "engineering". It covers a position in design and development within Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development, Inc. - but now I think I have started digressing...
The original point was that I do not necessarily believe in a one-to-one-relationship between what can be imagined and what can be done. On the other hand, I am pretty certain that another relationship exists - a relationship which can be described by

If you can't even dream it, how could you dream of doing it?

All that's left to say is: make sure to keep your dreams and your powers of imagination alive and well. Who knows? Something worth turning into reality, might come out of it.
(Translated from Noget om at drømme, originally published February 4, 2014)

On the topic of being creative

Image courtesy of Pixabay / qimono

In my list of blog topics was a point taken from a lecture I heard the Danish professor of educational psychology at Aalborg University Lene Tanggaard give in the fall of 2010 - it merely said:

Be creative - it works!

- to cut a long story short: let the creative ideas loose when they emerge; have them written down to an extent so that they can be reconstructed as needed, and then leave them to mature and have a critical look at them later.
As it has been said so often: if there is just one good idea that turns into something, then it has been worth it - but it begins when you give yourself the permission to get the good ideas; and the easiest way to do this is to allow yourself to have a lot of ideas and hold on to them. Then, you can always later find out which ideas that are indeed good, and try to use these as the basis for innovation.
(Translated from Noget om at være kreativ, originally published January 5, 2013)