Quotes of the Day 44: Imagination

Quote 1: “Why, sometimes, I’ve believed as many as 6 impossible things before breakfast.” - Lewis Carroll, Through The Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

Quote 2: “Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.” - Alan Turning, The Imitation Game

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll is a fantasy action novel published on December 27th, 1871 as a sequel to the 1965 “Alice in Wonderland.” Lewis Carroll originally published the book under the pseudonym Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and he wrote the book for his friend’s young daughters. Alice, the protagonist of the book, was named after one of the young daughters and follows her character traveling down a rabbit hole into a realm of whimsy. Carroll published a sequel due to the original’s critical acclaim. Carroll revisits the same ideas that made the first book so great with new concepts like mirror images (since this time Alice enters through a mirror instead of a rabbit hole), a reversed flow of time, and chess games as well as iconic characters like Tweedledee and Tweedledum and many more zany characters. The book and its memorable characters have left a massive impact on culture since its release which still holds true to this day. This novel is also a rare example of the sequel bringing in more attention to its predecessor than the predecessor had on its own.

Through The Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There’s quote is explaining how we can benefit from imagining more. The quote has Alice believe 6 impossible things before breakfast with many more towards the rest of the day. By imagining more, we can allow our minds to be free and be more creative to come up with crazy, complex, and cool ideas. Imagining more keeps your mind open to new possibilities you hadn't thought of before.

The Imitation Game is a biographical thriller film based on the 1983 biography “Alan Turing: The Enigma” released on November 28th, 2014. The movie follows an English mathematical genius who is trying to crack the German Enigma codes during World War II with the rest of a code breaking crew at a top secret Government Code and Cypher School. During the process, Alan Turing is trying to deal with his troubled life at home. Turing joined a cryptography team in 1939 to analyze messages sent by the Enigma Machine. Turing works alone and makes a machine which costs £100,000 to create which the team director does not want to fund. By contacting Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Turing gets the necessary funding to construct the machine and makes Turing the leader of the group. Turing fires two of his team members and looks for a more competent replacement member with a difficult crossword puzzle that recent Cambridge graduate Joan Clarke succeeds in solving.

Turing’s quote explains how the people who may be underestimated can do the unthinkable that no one thought was possible. Not everyone who can do the unimaginable is imagined to be able to do it or imagine that they can do it themselves. However, everyone should understand that they can do what they imagine to be able to do. Anyone can do what they imagine themselves to do so long as they have the passion and commitment to do it.

I hope that today’s quotes expanded your imagination. Have a great day everyone!

Want more? Here are the past 3 quotes of the day posts:

Quotes Of the Day 43: Change The World

Quotes Of the Day 42: Follow-Dreams

Quotes Of the Day 41: Overcoming Adversity

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