The Imagination Quotes
Art is the extended arm of your imagination, The feast of inspiration for your muse. Art isn't just creativity, its a way of life.
But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.
Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.
One must have the humility and the imagination to honor all deep human experiences - not least those one has never come near to sharing.
Im the youngest of four, but my closest sibling is 10 years older. I had a lot of imagination. I was running around playing little games by myself. But I never thought I was going to be an actor.
Your imagination is yours. You can remember the past you choose, rehearse the future you want, and identify with the real and fictional heroes and events of your selection.
The subject of management is man; the objective of management is the moving of man's mind and will and imagination.
In every race there is a crucial moment when the body wants to quit. Then it needs imagination and mental tenacuty to survive the crisis. Otherwise the penalty is defeat.
I'm not a dancer, so I have to find a movement that belongs to me. I dance within my limits and with my imagination.
All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.
I don't know if we ever have enough distance to "see" our own trajectory. We're in the muddled middle of it. Who knows what will last, what poems will take hold of the imaginations of the future.
The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination.
Space and time are figments of you're imagination, unless the guy you're flying next to won't shut up.
As a species, we create tools to control our environment. What excites my imagination is wilderness: our materials' ability to escape our control.
Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.
The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.
A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.
Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like.
Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.
Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thrivenon the changes and chances, the dislocations andcontrasts which have made up so much of my life.
To be an actor or actress, you have to feel on a deep level and tap into emotions that you've never felt before. You're imagining how something would feel. You have to use your imagination so much.
Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.
A fine woman shews her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.
The little ones still remember how to use the power of their imagination. They are still engaged in the utilization of their imagination, that is one of the reasons that keeps them so exhilarated.
I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.
Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense.
Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.
It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.
Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.
Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer. Ions might charge the air but they fell flat when it came to charging the imagination - my imagination, anyway.
...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.
For as long as I can remember, I've always had a wild imagination and always enjoyed reading and writing.
For me, the arts are just an endless source of intelligence, brilliance, imagination, and originality.
Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.
imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.
Only by recognizing the boundaries of our socially constructed scientific-technological reality can we transcend them in imagination and then achieve effective human action.
It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination. ... The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.
What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.
I'd never done anything that required a five-year commitment. To build a show that seems to have kept the imagination of the world so much was a bit otherworldly.