Quotes about imagination
imagination suspense excitement
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. Alfred Hitchcock
imagination important logic
There is something more important than logic: imagination
imagination use crafts
I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and then you'd use your imagination. Amy Sedaris
imagination records language
Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination. Anthony Burgess
imagination definitions artistic
Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history. Andre Breton
imagination one-time
Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere. Ann Patchett
imagination body idealism
Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death Anais Nin
imagination demand my-imagination
You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination.
imagination dependent
Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination? Anita Shreve
imagination littles ordinary
The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's ordinary powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed. E. F. Schumacher
imagination important looks
Imagination is more important than information. Einstein said that, and he should know. And they come. And they look. And we push. And they fly. We to stay and die on our beds. They to go and die howsoever, yet inspiring those who come after them to find their own edge. And fly. Robert Fulghum
imagination people secret
Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A Beauty Bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one... And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.
imagination reason
Reason is nothing without imagination. Rene Descartes
imagination murder commit
Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions. Thomas Nagel
imagination limits probability
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability. Thomas Huxley
imagination painting ifs
If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry Thomas Cole
imagination world facts
I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with. Thomas Sowell
imagination society problem
The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutionsthat get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.
imagination soul crowds
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! Robert Montgomery
imagination
Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination Rob Pike
imagination fantasy concentration
As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets. Rob Lowe
imagination active
I've always had an active imagination. Rickie Lee Jones
imagination temptation littles
A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best. Raymond Carver
imagination world imagine
Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true. Sydney J. Harris
imagination discipline mind
A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.
imagination growing disease
Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology... Susan Sontag
imagination structure pornography
Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.
imagination intuition weak
Intuition is linear; our imaginations are weak. Even the brightest of us only extrapolate from what we know now; for the most part, we're afraid to really stretch. Ray Kurzweil
imagination return investment
My best investment is my imagination because it has never failed to bring me my greatest return. Randy Castillo
imagination artistic relation
There are instances: [Henry David] Thoreau read [John] Wordsworth, [John] Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and you got national parks. It took a century for this to happen, for artistic values to percolate down to where honoring the relation of people's imagination to the land, or beauty, or to wild things, was issued in legislation. Robert Hass
imagination community literature
As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature. Then what I decided is I am a spokesman for this other imagination of community - not the one showing up in the market. Nobody was tending to the way we're imaginatively connected to each other.
imagination soul mind
Form is burden. Sometimes being part of the system enslaves the mind and greatly limits the imagination by enslaving it to form. Form is a burden to the mind that sees no limits. Form is a prison for the soul who sees possibilities outside the lines and wishes to test them. Suzy Kassem
imagination willpower ten
Our # imagination is ten times more potent than our # willpower . Tony Robbins