- Man lives by imagination.
- Havelock Ellis on Imagination
- Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind's eye. That's an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition.
- Joshua Foer on Imagination
- Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.
- John Cameron on Imagination
- Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
- Sofia Kovalevskaya on Imagination
- Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
- Carl Clinton Van Doren on Imagination
- Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes on Imagination
- Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
- Blaise Pascal on Imagination
- Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?
- Ernst Toller on Imagination
- Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
- Agnes Smedley on Imagination
- Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
- Plato on Imagination
- Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.
- Stephen Sondheim on Imagination
- My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!
- Randy Castillo on Imagination
- My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.
- Richard Russo on Imagination
- My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
- John Adams on Imagination
- My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.
- Andrew Bird on Imagination
- My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?
- Barbara Corcoran on Imagination
- My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.
- Jessica Hagedorn on Imagination
- My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
- Clara Schumann on Imagination
- My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.
- Kim Elizabeth on Imagination
- My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
- Patricia Highsmith on Imagination
- My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
- John Keats on Imagination
- My imagination is my polestar I steer by that.
- Clive Barker on Imagination
- My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin on Imagination
- My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel on Imagination
- My life has been a gift up to this point, and I've been blessed beyond my wildest imagination. And wherever this ride takes me is where I'm going.
- Sean Hannity on Imagination
- My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.
- John Henrik Clarke on Imagination
- My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.
- Andre Dubus III on Imagination
- My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.
- Nicole Kidman on Imagination
- My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
- Tom Waits on Imagination
- My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.
- Michael Tippett on Imagination
- My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
- Abdul Kalam on Imagination
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