The Imagination Quotes

Imagination comes of not having things.

Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.

For why are we here if not to try to fathom one another? Not through facts alone, but with the full extent of our imaginations. And what are stories if not tools for imagining?

If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.

What better way to expand your imagination than to read!

Laissons les jolies femmes aux hommes sans imagination. Leave the pretty women for the men without imagination.

Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future.

I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and capacity for loyalty, the contents of it.

These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.

Man - a figment of God's imagination.

Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.

Imagination is the one weapon against reality.

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me.

Heaven is beyond our imagination . . . . At our most creative moment, at our deepest thought, at our highest level, we still cannot fathom eternity.

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

Wordsmiths who serve established power...castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.

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.

Go on and close your eyes, go on imagine me there She's got similar features with longer hair And if that's what it takes to get you through Go on and close your eyes it shouldn't bother you

Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.

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.

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.

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.

Only by recognizing the boundaries of our socially constructed scientific-technological reality can we transcend them in imagination and then achieve effective human action.

imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.

To look, to record, to inscribe, to reproduce, to imitate, to reveal, to imagine are for me the seven keys of photographic imagination.

Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.

The imagination is both interpretative and creative in nature.

Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind.

To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.

The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.

Those who can't imagine change reveal the deficits of their imaginations, not the difficulty of change.

I'm very frustrated by fear of imagination. I don't think that's healthy.

I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it dries up I'll stop and look for another career.

I like to work with young people, because young people haven’t had their dreams kicked out of them yet. Full of confidence, and imagination, and vision, and when they score that all gets empowered.

death - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.

Your own imagination as to the true ability of the permaculture design system, you need to trust the system and stick to main frame basics with profound and thorough thinking while trusting yourself.

Art degraded, Imagination denied.

Nature has no outline. Imagination has.

I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?

Can imagination act Perpendicular to fact? Can it be a kite that flies Till the Earth , umbrella-wise, Folds and drops away from sight?

That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man.

It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.

The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves.

My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.

Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.

Your imagination can focus on ugliness, distress and failure, or it can picture beauty, success, desired results. You decide how you want your imagination to server you.

Research the imagination. It was as obsolete as the appendix in most adults, except for those in whom, like the appendix, it became inflamed for no reason.

Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination.

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.