The Imagination Quotes
I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being as creative as you could be -you aren't stretching your imagination.
Acting is an imaginative leap, really. And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell you how one does, but one tries to read those circumstances correctly.
The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations.
Though progress starts with the imagination, only work can make things happen. And work itself works best when fueled, again by the imagination.
To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.
We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.
Creative freedom is determined by how we behold the world. Any one of us can make new things with our perceptions that serve as doorways to the creative imagination. No one is excluded.
After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.
Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality.
Dinosaurs may be extinct from the face of the planet, but they are alive and well in our imaginations.
Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.
I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.
My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .
Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?
Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and worlds.
Now as jazz musicians we're saying for this society, you can free up your imagination. You can proceed in an area without much information and you can function in an area without much information.
I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so often we attribute our own feelings on to someone else.
Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun
my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.
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.
Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle—the more you use it, the stronger it gets.
The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.
One of the greatest things in human life is the ability to make plans. Even if they never come true-the joy of anticipating is irrevocably yours. That way one can live many more than just one life.
I believe fervently in the nature, in truth and imagination, I believe in the blood, in life, words, and motivations.
Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat.
I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need.
Imagination can help you reach into the heavens to grasp an idea, bring it down to earth, and make it work.
Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.
Life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew.
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.
You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.
Dreams, I thought. They're the riches of a poor person, stashed in treasure chests buried deeply in the imagination. But are dreams enough?
The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.
Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace.
Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
