The Imagination Quotes

A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player

When you step further into the story you came to live, not only does the mythic territory open, but the deep self moves and the world of imagination and meaning comes towards you.

The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.

The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art.

Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

The most erotic zone is the imagination.

Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.

In all forms of magick, the imagination or image-making faculty is the most important factor

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Certainly I've lived my whole life through my imagination. But the world of imagination is there for all of us--a sense of play, of pretending, of wonder. It's there with us as we live.

Reason is nothing without imagination.

There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination. They look, but they don't see.

Clearly, there has been a lack of imagination about how much can go wrong.

Film recognizes neither time nor space, only the limits of man's imagination

The only limit to your garden is at the boundaries of your imagination.

Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

I know it's easy to imagine, But it's easier to just do, See, if you can't do what you imagine, then what is imagination to you?

Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.

The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.

We have to devise means of making known the facts in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Too many simple green salads suffer from a lack of imagination.

Imagination makes you see all sorts of things.

What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with.

It is through the imagination that the formless takes form.

At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different

Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.

The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations.

Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.

When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.

To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.

She always wanted to believe in things.

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.