The Imagination Quotes
It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.
It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way.
I'm always looking for something to engage my imagination and take me on a little mental voyage. I just want a new topic in my life.
We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.
Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.
Toy Story 3 is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination -- the usefulness of toys -- and strictly celebrates consumerism.
Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.
I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.
As cities grow and technology takes over the world, belief and imagination fade away, and so do we.
To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.
As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep.
The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination.
Man's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man's relation to the cosmos--to the unknown--which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination.
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.
The spirit's there and that's not just my imagination. I think if you look at surveys and attitudes among young people, you see it.
Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.
How do we know imagination isn't just a different way of knowing something? A message from outside.
Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.
Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." shall we have it.
The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice.
The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another.
In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.
That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.
Music is about imagination. It's about thought. It's about creating something from nothing.
A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.
For me, couture is the kingdom of imagination, creativity and experimentation, and this is how I approach it. I do, however, remain pragmatic and realistic.
It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, ‘progress’ would become mechanical and trivial.
All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.
Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders.
A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.
You can offer your vibration on purpose. That's what visualization is. That's what imagination is: projecting thought energy on purpose.
When there are no lyrics there are many parts of the imagination that can fill in the meanings of the music, so I strongly believe that it can be more powerful at times.
When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever in our imaginations, and its characters live on.
As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect.
Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.
...your memories will be muddled and uncataloged - past, present, and imagination all mixed together. The same thing happens in dreams.
Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.
When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year.
How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?