- A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.
- Donald Trump on Imagination
- A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.
- Fred G. Gosman on Imagination
- A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
- Percy Ross on Imagination
- A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
- Ada Louise Huxtable on Imagination
- A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
- Russell Page on Imagination
- A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.
- Arthur Wing Pinero on Imagination
- A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
- Brad Henry on Imagination
- A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
- Catherine The Great on Imagination
- A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
- Jane Austen on Imagination
- 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.
- William Morris on Imagination
- A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
- Charles M. Schwab on Imagination
- A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
- William Hazlitt on Imagination
- 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.
- Richard Eyre on Imagination
- A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Imagination
- A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
- Antoine De Saint-Exupery on Imagination
- A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
- Vladimir Nabokov on Imagination
- A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur that the computer mouse is a hotrod that the box is a cave that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.
- Mo Rocca on Imagination
- All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
- Orison Swett Marden on Imagination
- All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.
- Tommy Lee Jones on Imagination
- All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
- Edgar Allan Poe on 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.
- Brian Tracy on Imagination
- All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
- Wislawa Szymborska on Imagination
- 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.
- Napoleon Hill on Imagination
- All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung on Imagination
- 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.
- Bob Kane on Imagination
- Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.
- Lara St. John on Imagination
- America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
- Harry S. Truman on Imagination
- An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
- Eduard Hanslick on Imagination
- An idea is salvation by imagination.
- Frank Lloyd Wright on Imagination
- 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.
- Maria Callas on Imagination
- And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
- Sylvia Plath on Imagination
- And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.
- James Merrill on Imagination
- Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.
- Janet Jackson on Imagination
- Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.
- Lionel Stander on Imagination
- Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.
- James L. Farmer, Jr. on Imagination
- Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
- Arnold J. Toynbee on Imagination
- Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
- Annie Dillard on Imagination
- Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
- Marcus Aurelius on Imagination
- As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.
- Bharati Mukherjee on Imagination
- As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect.
- Steve Kanaly on Imagination
- As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie.
- John Hawkes on Imagination
- As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
- Ursula K. Le Guin on Imagination
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