The Imagination Quotes

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

Besides the soothing effect it has, I think my favorite part of writing is being able to use my imagination and creativity to make new ideas and people and situations come to life.

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases.

I had a huge imagination. My granddad says I was a bit of a Walter Mitty character.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

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.

The key to life is imagination.

Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

A man with no imaginations has no wings.

Your imagination is your most important tool, as an actor, as cheesy as that sounds.

Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination.

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

...your memories will be muddled and uncataloged - past, present, and imagination all mixed together. The same thing happens in dreams.

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?

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.

Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

How do you want to create peace, if there is no peace inside yourselves?

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, ‘notwithstanding,’ in the long run remakes the world.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

Katie smiled and turned away, knowing it wasn't an illusion or a figment of her imagination. She knew what she saw. She knew what she believed.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go.

On the human imagination events produce the effects of time.

When you're quite young, your imagination's quite free.

To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.

If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.

I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same - although with videogames it requires a lot of imagination.

A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.

Morning Glory's introduction to the magical ways of the Goddess, manifest in our time, has enlarged my understanding of Pagan ways, enriching my spirit and imagination.

I think your imagination is your reality

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.

[Imagination] must be visited constantly, or else it begins to become restless and emit strange bellows at embarrassing moments; ignoring it only makes it grow larger and noisier.

My parents created a world in which the only ­barrier to your success is your own imagination.

It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.

Both desire and imagination are stored in the mind of the individual and when stretched, both have the potential to position a person for greatness.

Light had a way of keeping the monsters of my imagination at bay.

My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.

Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination.

Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier.

I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do.

Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.

the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.