Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
~By Claude Bernard ~
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
~By William Blake ~
Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.
~By Ishmael Reed ~
My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
~By Patricia Highsmith ~
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
~By Jane Austen ~
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.
~By Kim Elizabeth ~
I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful.
~By Rachel Zoe ~
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
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 ~
Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.
~By Shirley Hazzard ~
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.
~By Stephen Vizinczey ~
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
~By Wallace Stevens ~
The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.
~By James Weldon Johnson ~
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
~By Henry Ford ~
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
~By William Godwin ~
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
~By Helen Rowland ~
I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.
~By Rob Walton ~
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
~By John Keats ~
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.
~By Sylvia Plath ~
She has no imagination and that means no compassion.
~By Michael Foot ~
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
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.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
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.
~By Karl Lagerfeld ~
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
~By Daniel Bell ~
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
~By Edward Hopper ~
Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
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.
~By Horace Walpole ~
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
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 ~
By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
~By Dorthea Brande ~
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
~By Edmund Wilson ~
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
~By Jacques Maritain ~
Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.
~By Ashley Judd ~
I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.
~By Duncan Sheik ~
Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.
~By Judith Krantz ~
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
~By Janet Frame ~
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!"
~By Bill Bradley ~
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
~By John Muir ~
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
~By John Lennon ~
People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
~By Tom Robbins ~
Imagination creates reality.
~By Richard Wagner ~
I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.
~By Andrew Wyeth ~
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.
~By Louis Aragon ~
It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.
~By Elizabeth Wurtzel ~
In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true.
~By Joe Shuster ~
The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
~By Alexander Cockburn ~
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
~By Camille Paglia ~
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
~By Denis Waitley ~
Imagination decides everything.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
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 ~
Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.
~By Arthur Keith ~
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
~By Thomas Merton ~
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.
~By Stephen Covey ~
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 ~
I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show.
~By Matthew Ashford ~
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
~By Ernest Hemingway ~
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?
~By Ernst Toller ~
We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
~By John Dewey ~
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
~By Ella Maillart ~
Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.
~By Henry Miller ~
The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things.
~By Robert Nozick ~
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
~By John Berger ~
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
~By Josh Billings ~
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.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
~By Ian Mcewan ~
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.
~By Claire Danes ~
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
~By Irving Howe ~
In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted.
~By Joe Shuster ~
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.
~By Helen Rowland ~
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
~By Manuel Puig ~
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
~By Ray Bradbury ~
The human race is governed by its imagination.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.
~By Wynton Marsalis ~
Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
~By Bill Hicks ~
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 ~
Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.
~By Philip Guston ~
Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.
~By Mary Richards ~
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.
~By Ron Johnson ~
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.
~By Jerzy Kosinski ~
Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
~By Terry Brooks ~
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.
~By Bob Kane ~
So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.
~By Diana Krall ~
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 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 ~
A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
~By Percy Ross ~
Man lives by imagination.
~By Henry Ellis ~
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