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.
