imagination
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘imagination’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.” -Jerry Gillies
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“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
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“You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.” -Maimonides
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“A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.” -Vladimir Nabokov
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“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
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“I have a very vivid imagination.” -Janice Dickinson
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“Only in men’s imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.” -Joseph Conrad
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“It takes no imagination to live within your means.” -Francis Ford Coppola
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“A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.” -Catherine the Great
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“I’ve done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.” -Katy Perry
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“Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.” -Marquis de Sade
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“But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.” -Karl Lagerfeld
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“Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I’m really scared of being alone because if I’m left to my own devices, I’ll just turn into a madwoman.” -Claire Danes
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“The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.” -Jonathan Sacks
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“I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?” -Christina Aguilera
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“I don’t think art is propaganda it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.” -Keith Haring
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“Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.” -R. D. Laing
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“Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.” -Austin O’Malley
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“Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That’s why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.” -Vivien Leigh
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“Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.” -Edward Abbey
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“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
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“When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.” -Emile Coue
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“The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.” -Aesop
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“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
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“Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“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
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“If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude… I hope to make you use your imagination.” -Hedy Lamarr
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“Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.” -Christian Nestell Bovee
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“Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.” -Mason Cooley
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“One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.” -Joseph Joubert
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“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.” -John Dewey
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“What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.” -Salman Rushdie
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“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.” -Tom Stoppard
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“No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.” -Edward Hopper
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“Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.” -Noam Chomsky
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“Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.” -Lauren Bacall
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“The public has an appetite for anything about imagination – anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.” -Steven Spielberg
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“Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.” -Lily Tomlin
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“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
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“An idea is salvation by imagination.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.” -John Burroughs
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“Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you’re forced back on your own imagination.” -Stephen King
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“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
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“My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.” -Clara Schumann
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“To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.” -George Jean Nathan
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“My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.” -Abdul Kalam
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“A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.” -Donald Trump
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“For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.” -Jean Dubuffet
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“You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.” -Denis Waitley
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“Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that’s all you have.” -James Dean
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“I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn’t that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that’s when your creativity is developed, when you’re young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.” -David Walliams
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“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” -Gloria Steinem
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“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
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“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
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“The human race is governed by its imagination.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.” -Bill Hicks
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“A lady’s imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” -Jane Austen
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“A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” -Brad Henry
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“We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.” -Judy Garland
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“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…
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“Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.” -Stephen Covey
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“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.” -John Lennon
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“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
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“I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.” -Calvin Trillin
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“I am better able to imagine hell than heaven it is my inheritance, I suppose.” -Elinor Wylie
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“Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.” -L. Frank Baum
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“What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.” -Kerry Thornley
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“The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.” -Alexander Chase
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“There are no shortcuts in life – only those we imagine.” -Frank Leahy
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“Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.” -C. S. Lewis
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“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.” -Simon Pegg
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“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
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“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.” -William Butler Yeats
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“There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.” -Edmund Burke
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“I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.” -Duane Michals
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“To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.” -Anatole France
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“I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.” -Chris Brown
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“Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.” -Gilbert Parker
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“I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.” -Imran Khan
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“It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object beware of this stumbling block.” -Paul Gauguin
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“The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.” -Charlie Chaplin
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“Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.” -Epictetus
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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” -Jorge Luis Borges
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“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!” -Dr. Seuss
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“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” -Michelangelo
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“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” -George S. Patton
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