What Is The Imagination Quotes

I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it.

Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.

Imaginations and illusions are always so much more powerful and bigger than this mediocre and boring thing called reality.

It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.

The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

The capability of human life is beyond our imagination. What counts is the human capacity to investigate and transform our own mind and the world around us in a powerful and positive direction.

Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination.

The Christian should be the person who is alive, whose imagination absolutely boils, which moves, which produces something a bit different from God's world because God made us to be creative.

Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.

Your hands are tied in action, but your hands are not tied in imagination and everything springs forth from the imagination. Everything.

We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we lack utterly in imagination.

Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.

But real life is only one kind of life—there is also the life of the imagination.

Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.

Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.

Imagination is intervention, an act of defiance. It alters belief.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination.

For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading.

Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.

But anyone with the time and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness.

I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.

I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.

Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead . . . for in imagination, we can create wonders.

There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.

Hope your wildest hopes, dream your maddest dreams, imagine your most fantastic fantasies. Where your hopes and your dreams and your imagination leave off, the love of my Heavenly Father only begins.

Imagination is the mightiest despot.

The basis of the discovery is imagination, careful reasoning and experimentation where the use of knowledge created by those who came before is an important component.

People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.

This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.

Think the unthinkable, Imagine the impossible Pursue the imaginations limits.

So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.

Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T. Barnum than Thomas Edison.

My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.

I love the opportunity to just let my imagination run riot! Non-fiction can be very restrictive.

You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination.

I do find life difficult at times … and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy … I don't think one can have great imagination and great wisdom. Can one?

I have the world's best job. I get paid to hang out in my imagination all day.

My imagination has always been inspired by nature’s vision

My imagination creates my reality.

I always drink at lunchtime. It helps my imagination.

I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid.

Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish.

Love requires imagination more than experience.

Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.

Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.

Sympathy is the child of imagination

In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.

Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.