The Imagination Quotes

Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.

Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed.

You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.

It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed

There are real facts in my poems, but facts mixed up in the perverse stubborn stew of imagination, add a pinch or two of revenge and retribution, a dash of amplification and reparation.

I think cinema is the memory and the imagination of the country. Take the memory and imagination out of an individual, and he stops being an individual. I think its the same thing for a country.

If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to.

The imagination is fertile. From seeds of the imagination, much is made manifest.

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

Take the ideas that speak to you. Use your imagination. Create something wonderful.

In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.

Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest.

How to teach rigor while preserving imagination is an unsolved challenge to education.

Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began with moral instruction but soon morphed into empathy and imagination.

Some fools in the desert with nothing to do...invented me, and they invented you. And other fools keep it all going and growing. Everybody, we're a figment of their imagination.

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.

At bottom each “exact” science is, and must be speculative, and its chief tool of research, too rarely used with both courage and judgement, is the regulated imagination.

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket.

I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.

Imagination is no longer conceived as simplistically opposed to perception and reason; rather, perception and reason are recognised as being always informed by the imagination.

The imagination is a dream factory of which realities are a by-product.

I've always had an active imagination.

Most of the songs I write just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake.

Any media-brainwashed automaton can summon the insipid courage to peer into the horrifying abyss. But it takes a freaking genius with a fearless imagination to peer into the maw of happiness.

As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets.

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.

And I’m not confused about the lack of, or the need for, imagination in low or high places. We could do better we must do better. There are far worse things to drop on people than crayolas.

Flood your imagination with vision... if your deepest needs, values and internal beliefs agree with your direction, then you're more likely to succeed.

Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.

Someone will always want to mobilize Death on a massive scale for economic Domination or revenge. And the task, taken As a task, appeals to the imagination. The military is an engineering profession.

A moment is a mighty thing Beyond the soul's imagination; For in it, though we trace it not, How much there crowds of varied lot How much of life, life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity!

The stronger the imagination, the less imaginary the results.

First of all, begin to live out of the glory of your imagination, not your memory.

Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of analogies in the thirty-first century.

A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.

Let your imagination soar. What you can do for customers is more than you see today.

If you don't use your own imagination, somebody else is going to use it for you.

I do as much comedy as I possibly can but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.