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.
