The Imagination Quotes

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination, a kind of everyday clairvoyance, a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

Your first thought is often the best one. You know, the one that felt too weird or silly or stupid. Trust your imagination - it knows what it's doing.

The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not.

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

You're only limited by your passion and your imagination. Be open to the possibilities, take chances.

As actors we're always trying to use our creative imagination.

I always thought Cheers ended well. You always anticipate that the characters, theough they're leaving television, will somehow go on in another world of the imagination, which I think is good.

You can think of creativity as applied imagination.

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

Live in your imagination today, for tomorrow it can become your reality.

That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.

I was allowed to have an imagination rather than a need to be entertained all the time by television or computers or anything like that. So, I think it's helpful to try and give your kids.

Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.

Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty of the art form I like to play with.

Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

There is no oil so thick as to destroy the imagination.

How long an actress lives professionally depends on her stamina, the extent of her masochism, her imagination, and her yearning for recognition or approval.

When a certain show or film or celebrity captures the imagination of the masses that has a good deal to say about us, I think, and what is happening in our collective psyche.

Then there's the silliest of all cliches, 'on a pace for' 'Pace' is a figment of the mathematician's imagination.

The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.

The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.

It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination.

I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'

But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?

I've always had an involved imagination.

All you need is your own imagination. So use it that's what it's for.

If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and reason.

I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.

But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.

Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.

The action movie, the thriller and the drama all have safety nets under them. But not the horror film. The horror film can sink to an abyss far darker than the imagination can ever reach.

Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind.

Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.

Imagine everything you're experiencing now being a hundred times more wonderful. Bad turns good; good turns great. THAT IS WHAT IS POSSIBLE.

Without imagination, there is no goodness, no wisdom.

I have too much imagination to be a housewife

Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.

A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories.

Imagination labors best in distant fields.

No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.

Imagination is the doorway you walk through into every future moment. Are you walking through doorways to pain or to joy?

the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.

He had no imagination either-fatal for one engaged in child-rearing

Stop being so fruitlessly busy and dream. Use your imagination. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your experience and improve your mind and your soul and your world.

Part of what the imagination does later in life is it's linking you not just to who you are now but to all the people you've been.