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.
