Quotes about imagination
imagination mind plight
When a poor disconsolated drooping creature is terrified from all enjoyment,--prays without ceasing 'till his imagination is heated,--fasts and mortifies and mopes, till his body is in as bad a plight as his mind; is it a wonder, that the mechanical disturbancesof an empty belly, interpreted by an empty head, should be mistook for [the] workings [of God]. Laurence Sterne
imagination levels use
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. Luigi Pirandello
imagination christ
Christ, what an imagination I've got! John Brunner
imagination evolution theory
The evolution theory is purely the product of the imagination. John Ambrose Fleming
imagination man untrained wings
The man of imagination who is untrained (unlearned, uneducated, undisciplined) has wings and no feet. Joseph Joubert
imagination creative
The imagination is both interpretative and creative in nature. Napoleon Hill
imagination fiction doe
The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.
imagination balance riches
If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.
imagination world
Imagination governs the world. Napoleon Bonaparte
imagination world anything-goes
In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens. Northrop Frye
imagination literature language
Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.
imagination situation rhetorical
We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them.
imagination pieces educated
My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .
imagination progress weapons
With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination. Oriana Fallaci
imagination perception brain
With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while theyre going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination. Oliver Sacks
imagination obstacles power-of-positive-thinking
Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Norman Vincent Peale
imagination novel
For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination ... Ellen Glasgow
imagination historical quality
The big question of our time is not Can it be built? but Should it be built? This places us in an unusual historical moment: our future prosperity depends on the quality of our collective imaginations. Eric Ries
imagination stretch work
We still have a lot of work to do. By no stretch of the imagination are we comfortable with what happened. London Fletcher
imagination people feels
Perhaps people ought to feel with more imagination. Elliot Perlman
imagination people ballet
I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet. Joan Chen
imagination hem facts
It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth. Madeleine L'Engle
imagination together mystery
Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness. Lynne Truss
imagination manners persons
Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.
imagination anything-in-life lm-montgomery
But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it? Lucy Maud Montgomery
imagination green-gables delightful
It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?
imagination vision stones
The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the power to interpret them in a language vernacular and time--- is he who shall create poems in stone. Louis Sullivan
imagination break-out boxes
The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles. Jonah Lehrer
imagination sparks ships
There's nothing like a shipwreck to spark the imagination of everyone who was not on that specific ship. Jon Stewart
imagination mind emotion
Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind. Joyce Carol Oates
imagination childhood want
Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have been, as I wanted - and didn't want - it to be.
imagination television my-imagination
Part of what I love about television is that my imagination gets to keep going. It doesn't stop. Katee Sackhoff
imagination visionaries events
A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts. James Madison