The Imagination Quotes

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination.

Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.

You've got to believe in yourself, or no one will believe in you. Imagination is like a bird on the wing, flying free for you to use.

Your imagination can create a reality

The future of every community lies in capturing the passion, imagination, and resources of its people.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination."

Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice.

If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

The secret of the master mind is found wholly in the use of imagination.

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

The only limit to success is your own imagination.

You believe in God? Believe also in your imagination.

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.

Engineering is not quite as important as imagination.

Expand your Imagination.

I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies - other people can't get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.

A person's life is dyed with the color of his imagination.

It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.

The power of miracle is the power of imagination.

This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.

If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations.

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

Our minds are so undisciplined that our doubts rule our lives and we don't master our imagination - it masters us.

Worry is a waste of imagination.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Always remember: The thieves of Peace are thieves in an empty house because only imagination suffers. You are Peace, that which remains Untouched.

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

Imagination is seeing with the eye of God.

Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them!

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.

If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.

I really think one of the greatest allies you can have is the imagination of your audience.

[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.

Colonialism is the massive fog that has clouded our imaginations regarding who we could be, excised our memories of who we once were, and numbed our understanding of our current existence.

Dance form is logical, but it is all in the realm of feeling, sensitivity and imagination.

Imagination is ... the foundation of all invention and innovation.

Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade.

When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.