Famous Quotes
- Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
- Alfred North Whitehead on 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.
- Maxwell Maltz on Imagination
- For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
- Jean Dubuffet on Imagination
- For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.
- Hugo Pratt on Imagination
- 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.
- Joshua Bell on Imagination
- For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
- Manuel Puig on Imagination
- For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
- Arthur Conan Doyle on Imagination
- For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
- Lawrence Durrell on Imagination
- Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
- Norman Vincent Peale on Imagination
- Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
- Luis Bunuel on Imagination
- Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.
- Paul Ryan on Imagination
- Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
- Felix Bloch on Imagination
- Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.
- Peter Sotos on Imagination
- Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau on Imagination
- George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.
- Peter Mayhew on Imagination
- Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.
- Vanessa Hudgens on Imagination
- Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.
- Richard Lugar on Imagination
- Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
- Eduard Hanslick on Imagination
- Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.
- Terry Brooks on Imagination
- Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
- Marquis De Sade on Imagination
- Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
- Immanuel Kant on Imagination
- Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.
- Franklin P. Adams on Imagination
- He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.
- Harvey Keitel on Imagination
- He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan on Imagination
- He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
- Washington Irving on Imagination
- He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
- Joseph Joubert on Imagination
- 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.
- Judith Krantz on Imagination
- 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.
- John Adams on Imagination
- His imagination conceived and bore - worlds but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.
- Algernon H. Blackwood on Imagination
- Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
- Jonas Salk on Imagination
- 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.
- Nellie Bly on Imagination
- However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
- J. K. Rowling on Imagination
- I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.
- Trevor Nunn on Imagination
- I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.
- Chris Brown on Imagination
- I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?
- Bonnie Jo Campbell on Imagination
- I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.
- Cornelia Funke on Imagination
- I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.
- Mike Krzyzewski on 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.
- Derek Jacobi on Imagination
- I am better able to imagine hell than heaven it is my inheritance, I suppose.
- Elinor Wylie on Imagination
- I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
- John Keats on Imagination
- I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
- Albert Einstein on Imagination
- 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.
- Peter Nivio Zarlenga on Imagination
- I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
- Carlos Fuentes on Imagination
- I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
- Meryl Streep on Imagination
- I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
- Duane Michals on Imagination
- I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by.
- Janelle Monae on Imagination
- 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.
- Robert Fulghum on Imagination
- I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
- Imran Khan on Imagination
- I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?
- Jane Campion on Imagination
- I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.
- Marilyn Manson on Imagination
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