- Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
- Kate Atkinson on Imagination
- Faith is spiritualized imagination.
- Henry Ward Beecher on Imagination
- Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
- Helen Rowland on Imagination
- Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison on Imagination
- Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
- Mason Cooley on Imagination
- Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
- Louis Aragon on Imagination
- Few people have the imagination for reality.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Imagination
- Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
- Jessamyn West on Imagination
- 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.
- Napoleon Hill on Imagination
- 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
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