My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
~By Ursula K. Le Guin ~
There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
~By Edith Wharton ~
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.
~By L. Frank Baum ~
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
~By Beverly Cleary ~
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
~By Richard Hofstadter ~
I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.
~By Trevor Nunn ~
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.
~By Larry McMurtry ~
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
~By Joseph Addison ~
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
~By Jimi Hendrix ~
Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.
~By Mark Haddon ~
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
~By Edward Hopper ~
The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.
~By Tony Robbins ~
Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.
~By Tim Robbins ~
My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
~By Patricia Highsmith ~
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
~By Jack Prelutsky ~
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
~By Daniel Bell ~
Imagination is the air of mind.
~By Philip James Bailey ~
I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.
~By Whoopi Goldberg ~
Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.
~By Edgar Rice Burroghs ~
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.
~By Doris Day ~
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
~By Abdul Kalam ~
I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.
~By Duncan Sheik ~
Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.
~By Ronnie James Dio ~
If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.
~By Bruce Greenwood ~
Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.
~By Ishmael Reed ~
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.
~By Edgar Degas ~
But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.
~By Laura Miller ~
The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
~By James A. Michener ~
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
~By Vladimir Nabokov ~
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.
~By William Robertson Smith ~
I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.
~By Don Novello ~
People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
~By Tom Robbins ~
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
~By Billy Connolly ~
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.
~By Al Gore ~
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
~By William Blake ~
I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.
~By Patty Duke ~
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
~By Ella Maillart ~
True change takes place in the imagination.
~By Thomas Moore ~
Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
~By Bill Hicks ~
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.
~By Franklin P. Adams ~
Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.
~By Buffy Sainte-Marie ~
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.
~By Jack Vance ~
One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.
~By Steve Allen ~
When you're young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!
~By Devon Werkheiser ~
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
~By Mark Twain ~
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
~By Ursula K. Le Guin ~
With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.
~By Theodore Gericault ~
Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!
~By George William Curtis ~
Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.
~By Terry Brooks ~
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.
~By Franz Schubert ~
I have a very vivid imagination.
~By Janice Dickinson ~
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
~By Carl Jung ~
My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.
~By Clive Barker ~
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
~By John Keats ~
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
~By Jane Austen ~
I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.
~By John C. Hawkes ~
President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.
~By Dennis Hastert ~
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
~By William Trevor ~
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
~By Martha Gellhorn ~
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
~By Muhammad Ali ~
I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.
~By Thomas Bailey Aldrich ~
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.
~By Janet Jackson ~
Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.
~By William Irwin Thompson ~
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
~By Christopher Isherwood ~
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
~By Ernest Hemingway ~
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.
~By Arnold J. Toynbee ~
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
~By Jacques Maritain ~
Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
~By Robert Collier ~
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
~By Immanuel Kant ~
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
~By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison ~
By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
~By Dorthea Brande ~
Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
~By Terry Wogan ~
Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.
~By Donna Brazile ~
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?
~By Cesare Pavese ~
Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.
~By Nellie Bly ~
People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.
~By Ann Wilson ~
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
~By Arthur Conan Doyle ~
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
~By Edward Abbey ~
The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.
~By Thomas Kinkade ~
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
~By Albert Einstein ~
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
~By Wallace Stevens ~
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
~By Henry James ~
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.
~By Sean O'Faolain ~
Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.
~By Yvonne Craig ~
It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.
~By Olivier Martinez ~
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
~By John Keats ~
We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
~By Terry Brooks ~
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.
~By James L. Farmer, Jr. ~
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