Words matter. These are the best Imagination Quotes from famous people such as Rory MacLean, Wallace Stevens, Claude Bernard, Tommy Lee Jones, Mason Cooley, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
To me, Berlin is as much a conceit as a reality. Why? Because the city is forever in the process of becoming, never being, and so lives more powerfully in the imagination.
We say God and the imagination are one… How high that highest candle lights the dark.
Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
All my life I’ve had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.
Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
My identity is linked to my grandmother, who’s pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that’s how I identify.
I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle – the more you use it, the stronger it gets.
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child’s imagination.
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
I’d love to play more challenging roles, characters that would stretch my comfort zone and imagination.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.
Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We’re always trying to transcend.
I’ll confess right here that I secretly wish I’d have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.
Some stories are true that never happened.
Sometimes, to stimulate your imagination you have to be careful you don’t have too much information. You can Google something, and it’s in your face, pow! You don’t have time to dream any more about it.
The Grateful Dead, they’re my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.
The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man – and the dogma is the drama.
I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.
There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
To bring anything into your life, imagine that it’s already there.
My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.
I don’t think it’s possible to touch people’s imagination today by aesthetic means.
The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.
The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.
I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I’m likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.
It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don’t understand the idea of leisure time.
I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don’t mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn’t need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.
Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
When you’re even on a regular movie set, you still have to suspend your disbelief. You’re working there with only 3 walls of a room, and you’re in costume, and you have a camera 6 inches from you and have a crew of 75 watching you. So even there, you have to crank up your imagination.
Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it’s transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa.
The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it’s a big problem.
I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child’s imagination. We’re all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects. Everybody should keep some grip on childhood, even as a grownup.
I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.
Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men.
Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.
So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch… or a baton… or something.
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Love is based on imagination.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
All of the Antilles, every island, is an effort of memory: every mind, every racial biography culminating in amnesia and fog. Pieces of sunlight through the fog and sudden rainbows, arcs-en-ciel. That is the effort, the labour of the Antillean imagination, rebuilding its gods from bamboo frames, phrase by phrase.
I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.
The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas hurts not only individual creators but the audience for which they create and the posterity that inherits their legacy.
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.
You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.
George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I’d do any character he might create.
From the boys’ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
The image of Stephen Hawking – who has died aged 76 – in his motorised wheelchair, with head contorted slightly to one side and hands crossed over to work the controls, caught the public imagination as a true symbol of the triumph of mind over matter.
My imagination functions much better when I don’t have to speak to people.
I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.
A place makes a deep impression on you when you’re young. It lives with you. It’s like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.
I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn’t gone away.
I suppose I’m proudest of my novels for what’s imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
I can’t work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.
The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is ‘write what you know,’ and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, ‘You can write about anything you can imagine.’
Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.
On ‘Into The Wild’ I spent months risking my life and on ‘Speed Racer’ I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.
Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination… a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there’s still time to influence how that future will play out.
The public has an appetite for anything about imagination – anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it’s a challenge to the moral imagination.
When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you’re suffering in.
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
Obviously, as an actor, you have to embrace your imagination all the time, but when you’re doing one of these films, you have to embrace your most childlike imagination – a sense of wonder and uninhibited playfulness.
I’m an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.
If we divine a discrepancy between a man’s words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.
The great thing about making picture books is that you can make absolutely anything you want happen. It’s a bit like making a film, but you don’t need lots of money for actors and costumes – you just need pens, paper, and your imagination.
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they’re all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.
The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
I have truly been inspired by the struggle and triumphs of so many women that dare to break new ground in all aspects of society, and those who have pushed the boundaries of human imagination.
I’ve developed a theory that there’s an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if you’ve got lots of imagination then you don’t really need much money, and if you’ve got lots of money then you won’t bother with much imagination.
One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
A-POC unleashes the freedom of imagination. It’s for people who are curious, who have inner energy – the energy of life and living.
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
I think that in the cultural imagination, motherhood has a primacy that fatherhood just doesn’t; and that’s not to say that there aren’t many fathers who are active and engaged and for whom that is their life’s passion. But somehow, in the imagination, there’s something different about maternity.
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I’ve left the opera house.
I love fantasy; I love imagination – that’s the inner child in me.
I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement.
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it’s essential to be free.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
What’s cool is when you’re able to give your audience imagination and you don’t have to cage them in like animals.
The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.
I didn’t have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn’t have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn’t know where to put it.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
You are always drawing from your personal life and using your imagination to fill in the blanks.
As a manager, you have to sow a seed of imagination in your players.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.
From an early age, I had always loved drawing. Laying on the floor, in front of the fire, drawing from my imagination, marching soldiers, dive bombers, spaceships and monsters. Now, suddenly, I was drawing from real life!
People who think my books are autobiographical, which they’re not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination.
You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I’ll never lose my imagination and my passion. That’s really what it is. I’m still passionate about what I do.
One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We’re not scientists. We don’t always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.
I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.
True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.
Imagination decides everything.
Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind’s eye. That’s an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition.
The woman who appeals to a man’s vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.
Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character’s actions or lines are truer than others.
When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.
Imagination… its limits are only those of the mind itself.
Ideas seem to come from everywhere – my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.
Meeting Australian mountaineer and author Tim Macartney-Snape when I was 16 in 1994 had a big impact on me. His ascent of Everest from sea to summit captured my imagination.
Ideas control the world.
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
But there is so much more to do for the city we love… a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.
You have a dream 35 years ago – doesn’t come to fruition, but you move on with life. But it’s somewhere back there. Then you turn 60, and your mom just dies, and you’re looking for something. And the dream comes waking out of your imagination.
Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.
Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
The map we made of the 3,000-year-old city of Tanis requires no imagination. It has buildings, streets, admin complexes, houses – clear as day.
How can a doctor judge a woman’s sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.
My life has been a gift up to this point, and I’ve been blessed beyond my wildest imagination. And wherever this ride takes me is where I’m going.
I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.
I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.
The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
I think what’s really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn’t observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.
To put up a show is to face life’s injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.
Anyone who has an imagination can write a book – it’s cheap to do – but movies are big money.
Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind.
I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it’s science fiction, horror or really anything. I’m just drawn to quality. I don’t think ‘Darkness Falls’ is horror; there isn’t any gore by any stretch of the imagination.
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
I’ve always had an active imagination.
I may have been sexy, but I was covered up total. There was something left to the imagination.
‘Perfect Sense’ is a film about love and catastrophe, which I hope is a powerfully romantic and emotional take on the apocalyptic sub-genre. Its aim is to be a minimalist concept movie – where seismic events occur in simple ways that ask the audience to use their imagination.
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It’s easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and there is already a narrative arc. What makes it harder is that you are not free to use your imagination and creativity to fill in any missing gaps within the story.
I write from my imagination, not from what I’ve read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.
There’s no environment. Use your imagination. There’s no fourth wall, whether it’s the first time you’ve told this story about her life, or the sixth time.
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.
Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.
Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn’t there anymore.
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, ‘Just watch!’
Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, ‘Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,’ reducing it to a simple formula.
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
It takes no imagination to live within your means.
My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I’ve always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.
I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It’s those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.
I do rely on my instincts a lot and my imagination.
As a boy, the very words ‘Liberty Bell’ and ‘Independence Hall’ fired my imagination and made a profound and lasting impression on my mind. Throughout my struggle to secure national freedom for China, I have continuously dreamed of the day when she would assume the full stature of an independent, democratic nation.
Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they’re casting, they’re dressing the scene, they’re working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they’re also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.
America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
We can live with lots of things, but we can’t live without imagination, we can’t live without hope.
Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.
My books are inert as cordwood till a reader’s imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn’t a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.
On the sets of the movie ‘Manto,’ I found that one of the challenges of embodying real-life stories is the mixed medium of facts and imagination, and how one’s collage of experiences colour ones representation on celluloid.
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
Essentially, I’m untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I’m going to be playing.
The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience – anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.
With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they’re going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing – in perception – have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.
I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It’s just a characteristic.
I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as ‘David’. But I wouldn’t really want to work with those people, you know?
I don’t think you can define how you acquire your imagination any more than you can define why one person has a sense of humor and another doesn’t. But I certainly would lean to the side that says all those solitary hours of daydreaming were a kind of training for poetry.
But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
You experience the films through the actors, so they’re all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.
Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.
Synthesizers can be programmed with more imagination than a real, ‘human’ performance. It’s a joyful thing.
‘The Spy Who Came in from the Cold’ was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion.
I’m not a perfect human being by any stretch of the imagination. But there is always this little voice inside of me that keeps me where I know I need to be.
Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.
When you’re starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that’s gone before and the stuff that’s influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that’s where you start from.
Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it’s produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.
The human race is governed by its imagination.
I don’t like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it’s your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.
The capacity you’re thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
I’m kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.
In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I’ve ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.
I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it’s not imagination. It’s just a way of watching.
As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.
For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
Certainly I was a very religious child, a deeply weird and very emotional child, an only child with lots of imaginary friends and a very active imagination. I loved Sunday school and Bible camp and all that. I had my own white Bible with Jesus’ words printed in red in the text; I even spoke at youth revivals.
There are no shortcuts in life – only those we imagine.
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you’re given – that’s definitely something I can sort of relate to.
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
I hope my kids see imagination has power to change everything.
If you don’t pay attention and if your imagination isn’t pretty much engaged, you’re going to miss things and you’re going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.
Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.
I’m not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.
It’s a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don’t have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.
Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper!
See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
Heaven knows, I’ve exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination… now my new book is about what really happened to me… not my heroines.
My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?
Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it – often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.
It’s a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I’ve never had any trouble identifying with the character that I’m playing.
People can die of mere imagination.
I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.
Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
I’m only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn’t. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
I don’t know if I am a good, average, or bad writer, but I write fast. Everything I observe, my experiences and imagination come together while writing.
The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
Doubt is the father of invention.
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.
You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can’t even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.
Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.
Imagination makes us aware of limitless possibilities. How many of us haven’t pondered the concept of infinity or imagined the possibility of time travel? In one of her poems, Emily Bronte likens imagination to a constant companion, but I prefer to think of it as a built-in entertainment system.
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.
We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
In those days, it didn’t take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.
When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.
The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.
Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
Usually I say I have no imagination.
You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia’s appearances to the reader’s imagination.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
People can’t just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.
The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they’ve experienced something.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
I grew up with interesting and funny people. We made our own fun. You had to use your imagination.
The most important innovators often don’t need any technologies – just imagination and acute sensitivity to people’s needs.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
People know that they’re going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it’s in. It’s dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination – it’s not straight forward.
I think it’s fun to play with worlds that you can add a lot of your own imagination to. With ‘True Blood,’ you’re not limited by anything, there are just leaps and bounds of the imagination you can take with these characters.
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.
There’s not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers – Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.
Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It’s a way to understand how the world will look in the future.
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one’s memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
Use your imagination. Look around the kitchen and see what you can use.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That’s very true.
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.
I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.
I don’t know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I’m glad he’s coming back. It’s going to be good for the show.
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
I have a very vivid imagination.
He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.
Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape.
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude… I hope to make you use your imagination.
Well, I think that as a country, we’ve drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
I’m really quite normal. My imagination has some serious kinks in it, that’s all.
I’m an optimistic guy. I’m one of those big dreamers. I’m one of those kids with that annoying imagination.
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it’s some kind of quality isn’t it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.
There are moments when a man’s imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
I grew up in this room filled with musical instruments, but most importantly, I had a family who encouraged me to invest in my own imagination, and so things I created, things I built were good things to be building just because I was making them, and I think that’s such an important idea.
Well, I’m not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.
Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that’s karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there’s karma all over again.
Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
Imagination makes us shape better stories, sure, but it also allows us to multiply possibilities.
I wouldn’t say that I’ve had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.
Busted is not the ideal band I’d like to be in by any stretch of the imagination.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
It’s through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.
A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that’s unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.
People who don’t see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Preschool children are virtuosos of imagination.
You spend a lot more time on your own as an only child. And there’s space to allow your imagination to take flight.
My imagination is a twisted place.
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
As children, we have vivid imaginations. We stay up late waiting for Santa Claus, dream of becoming president, and have ideas that defy physics. Then something happens. As we grow older, we start editing our imagination.
Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.
Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.
Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.
It was David McCullough’s ‘The Johnstown Flood’ that lit my imagination as to how I might one day go about writing book-length nonfiction, though my favorite of his books is ‘Mornings on Horseback,’ about the young Teddy Roosevelt.
Like a blazing comet, I’ve traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.
It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.
Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It’s the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.
I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it’s a way to get information and find out what’s going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.
You know when you’re a child and your imagination is limitless and you really believe in magic? I thought I had super powers.
If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that… that’s part of the gift God gave us. That’s what makes life exciting. We’re pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination.
My problem is that my imagination won’t turn off. I wake up so excited I can’t eat breakfast. I’ve never run out of energy. It’s not like OPEC oil; I don’t worry about a premium going on my energy. It’s just always been there. I got it from my mom.
I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn’t that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that’s when your creativity is developed, when you’re young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.
Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we’re disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
For me, it’s always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.
You never quite know what’s going to strike your imagination, or something that won’t going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I’m very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I’m feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It’s gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.
In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children’s curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore – in short, to play.
Illustrations can be a big window: a looking glass into the author’s imagination.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.
The hoax is the very absence of truth, which usually means art is absent, too – hoaxes regularly substitute claims of reality for imagination, facts for form, acting as if artifice is the antithesis of art.
We didn’t have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.
The imagination is an innate gift, but it needs refinement and cultivation; this is what the humanities provide.
For some reason I can’t explain, artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music, you need this youthful sense of discovery and wonder for what you’re doing and keep your imagination open. That’s a youthful way of looking at life and I think that reflects in how you age.
Few people have the imagination for reality.
You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.
Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.
Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it’s a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.
I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making money doing it or not, whether it was on a stage in front of 1,000 people or in the living room in front of my family.
The travel writer seeks the world we have lost – the lost valleys of the imagination.
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That’s why I don’t mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.
You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That’s what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don’t go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they’re not going to have that imagination.
Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.
What I love most about animation is, it’s a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.
Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it’s always been there. It’s been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.
It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.
I don’t want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
Well, I think that – I think leadership’s always been about two main things: imagination and courage.
People are always saying it’s the end of the Gutenberg era. More to the point, it’s a return to an oral era. The Gutenberg galaxy was about the written word. At its best, the digital era is part of the rediscovery of the oral. At its worst, it’s a Kafkaesque victory of the bureaucratic over the imagination.
Use your imagination, and you’ll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination – everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.
I’ve proven I’m courageous. I’m gutsier than anybody; I’ve got a better imagination than anybody; I’m essentially more creative than any other actor I know, and I’ve proven I take risks. I don’t think I need to prove anything to myself any more.
For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
I’ve been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It’s up to you, the only limit is the imagination.
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life.
Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you’re forced back on your own imagination.
I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect.
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west’s stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art’s assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.
Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20’s, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one’s imagination.
To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
I’ve done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.
There’s just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can’t know it all, and that’s where imagination can work.
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
But I’m never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.
I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
I don’t know what the next American revolution is going to be like, but we might be able to imagine it if your imagination were rich enough.
It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.
Imagination needs to be fed.
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.
The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
Vision – It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
Imagination creates some big monsters.
A viewer’s imagination is a powerful storyteller, and can often come up with things way more frightening than what you can explicitly show in a horror movie… try to engage that imagination, and the results can be magical.
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.
I don’t know exactly how I end up with some of these roles. It mystifies me sometimes, but I am a fan of sci-fi. I love being taken into a strange world, and when it’s told with imagination and credibility, I love being taken on that trip. I always have.
A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
Imagination allows you to bend the rules of the temporal world.
What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
I stare out the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevitable failure of one’s imagination and one’s goals and ambitions to create a character or a life worth saving.
And, as I have said, it’s made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren’t external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.
Mine is not an autonomous imagination.
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.
A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.
The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one’s own imagination.
You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.
When James Bond presses the watch and the car explodes, the writer doesn’t go into the science of it. One should leave it to the leap of faith. I have tried to explain as much as possible, and what I can’t, I have left it to people’s imagination.
We also maintain – again with perfect truth – that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.
True change takes place in the imagination.
I think humans have always felt watched back by whatever is out there flickering in the distance. What excites me is what the imagination creates, not simply in explanation of what is there but also to explain or justify the feeling of awe and attachment that the heavens inspire.
Only in your imagination can you revise.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.
Liberty: One of Imagination’s most precious possessions.
I don’t think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Imagination is an instrument of survival.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.
It’s a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know – we have to be able to imagine different worlds.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
You know, working as an actor, I’m always working within my own imagination.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason’s imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.
Love doesn’t grow on trees like apples in Eden – it’s something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations – like that of artistic imagination.
I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject – skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.
Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.
Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin’s ‘Courant’, it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America’s last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.
Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It’s also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one’s imagination.
We especially need imagination in science.
Think of the imagination as a giant stone from which we carve out new ideas. As we chip away, our new ideas become more polished and refined. But if you start by editing your imagination, you start with a tiny stone.
Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.
I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I’ve got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
My books are elegiac in the sense that they’re odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.
