Famous Quotes
- Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
- George Bernard Shaw on Imagination
- Imagination is the eye of the soul.
- Joseph Joubert on Imagination
- Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
- Lauren Bacall on Imagination
- Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
- Jimi Hendrix on Imagination
- Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.
- Ida Tarbell on Imagination
- Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
- William Blake on Imagination
- Imagination is the true magic carpet.
- Norman Vincent Peale on Imagination
- Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
- Henry Miller on Imagination
- Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
- Christopher Fry on Imagination
- Imagination needs to be fed.
- Barbara Januszkiewicz on Imagination
- Imagination rules the world.
- Napoleon Bonaparte on Imagination
- Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
- Francis Bacon on Imagination
- 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.
- Horace Walpole on Imagination
- Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.
- Mary Wesley on Imagination
- Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
- Carl Sagan on Imagination
- Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.
- Ellen Terry on Imagination
- 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.
- Amy Waldman on Imagination
- 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.
- Vladimir Nabokov on Imagination
- Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
- Robinson Jeffers on Imagination
- Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.
- Rod Serling on Imagination
- Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus on Imagination
- In imagination, there's no limitation.
- Mark Victor Hansen on Imagination
- In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.
- Oren Peli on Imagination
- In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.
- Gustavo Dudamel on Imagination
- In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.
- J. C. Watts on Imagination
- In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.
- James Buchan on Imagination
- In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted.
- Joe Shuster on 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.
- Colleen McCullough on Imagination
- In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
- Wallace Stevens on Imagination
- In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true.
- Joe Shuster on Imagination
- 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.
- Phil Harris on Imagination
- Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.
- Ron Johnson on Imagination
- Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
- Victor Hugo on Imagination
- It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez on Imagination
- It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
- Ursula K. Le Guin on Imagination
- 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.
- Edgar Degas on Imagination
- 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.
- Paul Farmer on Imagination
- It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
- H. L. Mencken on Imagination
- It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
- Edouard Manet on 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?
- Cesare Pavese on Imagination
- It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object beware of this stumbling block.
- Paul Gauguin on Imagination
- 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.
- Robert South on Imagination
- It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive.
- Henry David Thoreau on Imagination
- 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.
- David Bailey on Imagination
- It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.
- Leonard Orr on Imagination
- It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.
- Michael Apted on Imagination
- It takes no imagination to live within your means.
- Francis Ford Coppola on Imagination
- It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel on Imagination
- 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.
- Kevin J. Anderson on Imagination
- It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.
- David Korten on Imagination
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