The Imagination Quotes

If we cannot envision the world we would like to live in, we cannot work towards its creation. If we cannot place ourselves in it in our imagination, we will not believe it is possible.

Because white men can’t police their imaginations, black men are dying.

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.

Give children toys that are powered by their imagination, not by batteries.

All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances.

I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.

The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.

What's a mediator you ask? Oh, a person who acts as a liason between the living and the dead. Hey, wait a minute...what're you doing with that strait jacket?-Suze Simon's imagination

A mystery is the most stimulating force in unleashing the imagination.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Imagination gives the man the ability to poject himself through time and space and rise above all limitations.

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.

Art is the child of imagination and gives life.

Imagination is more powerful than knowledge.

Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.

I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

Challenging the status quo takes commitment, courage, imagination, and, above all, dedication to learning.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

Even though you get a little twinge every now and again with the years marching on and become aware of your own mortality, you realise you're only limited by your imagination.

Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind.

The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.

If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.

We learn to love our sweat, we discover our passion to move and connect it to effort, we discover both the animal in us and the power of our imagination

To put yourself in anothers place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.

The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without government simply staggers the imagination.

A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is.

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfiied by fear

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

The imagination is not an escape, but a return to the richness of our true selves; a return to reality.

The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.

Give me a kiss to build a dream on And my imagination will thrive upon that kiss Sweetheart, I ask no more than this A kiss to build a dream on.

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.