Quotes For Imagination

• I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places. Florence Welch

• I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Albert Einstein

• Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination. Evelyn Underhill

• Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon. Terry Brooks

• The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination. James A. Michener

• You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me. Peter Shaffer

• It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas. Kevin J. Anderson

• Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination. John Cameron

• To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. Wallace Stevens

• Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth. Jarvis Cocker

• Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare. Frederick Henry Hedge

• There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny. Edith Wharton

• Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. Henry Miller

• To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. Albert Einstein

• Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. Christopher Isherwood

• So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear. Diana Krall

• Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it. Mason Cooley

• The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. Percy Bysshe Shelley

• A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. William Morris

• This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts. Adam Smith

• Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination. Danny Boyle

• The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level. Vladimir Kramnik

• Science does not know its debt to imagination. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination. Isaac D'Israeli

• We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness. Thomas Merton

• The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. Henry Ford

• Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses. David E. Kelley

• One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination. Sam Levenson

• First comes thought then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. Napoleon Hill

• Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much. Vladimir Nabokov

• War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination. Bill Moyers

• What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists. Julianna Baggott

• Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza. Franz Kafka

• Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination. Henry Miller

• I've studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It's mainly about daydreaming. And the technique's really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene. Sam Rockwell

• Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin. William Robertson Smith

• Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself. Rashida Jones

• We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts. Ray Bradbury

• You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies we do. Dougray Scott

• You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. Milan Kundera

• I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player. Imran Khan

• If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. George S. Patton

• I've never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience. They're always smarter and savvier than any studio exec will give them credit for. James Van Der Beek

• Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions. Ambrose Bierce

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

• It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others. Alexander McCall Smith

• People can die of mere imagination. Geoffrey Chaucer

• There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness. William Godwin

• Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. Voltaire

• Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination. Charlie Simpson

• I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. Ursula K. Le Guin

• Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days. Vanessa Hudgens

• The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination. George Meredith

• Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. W. Somerset Maugham

• For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free. Manuel Puig

• Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. Carl Jung

• Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. Jimi Hendrix

• To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison

• Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up. Glen Hansard

• I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also. Steven Patrick Morrissey

• I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. Baruch Spinoza

• I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges

• There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos. Milan Kundera

• Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination. Judy Blume

• Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. Emile M. Cioran

• In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination. James Buchan

• To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another. John Burroughs

• There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen. Sean O'Faolain

• We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here. Deepak Chopra

• The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination. Alan Watts

• The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport. Van Morrison

• Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. Gloria Steinem

• I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action. James Broughton

• Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Norman Vincent Peale

• I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there. Beverly Cleary

• But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it. Karl Lagerfeld

• There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. Jean Giraudoux

• Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world. Walt Disney

• My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me. Elizabeth Wurtzel

• "Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.;Nathan Fillion;imagination

• 37721;I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.;Nathan Fillion;imagination

• 37722;I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.;Thomas Bailey Aldrich;imagination

• 37723;Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.;Tim Robbins;imagination

• 37724;There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.;Idris Elba;imagination

• 37725;The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.;Henry George;imagination

• 37726;I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.;Joe Rogan;imagination

• 37727;It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.;Ursula K. Le Guin;imagination

• 37728;My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.;Tom Waits;imagination

• 37729;The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.;Ben Okri;imagination

• 37730;Politics is the enemy of the imagination.;Ian Mcewan;imagination

• 37731;True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.;Ian Mcewan;imagination

• 37732;As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie.;John Hawkes;imagination

• 37733;What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.;Wynton Marsalis;imagination

• 37734;I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.;Andrew Wyeth;imagination

• 37735;I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth and then I can fly free.;Andrew Wyeth;imagination

• 37736;My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.;Richard Russo;imagination

• 37737;I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.;Brit Marling;imagination

• 37738;All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.;Tommy Lee Jones;imagination

• 37739;You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in some work next to nothing, you going to have a feature. But you can't get beyond how expensive marketing the movie is, it's so crushing.;Kevin Smith;imagination

• 37740;All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.;Wislawa Szymborska;imagination

• 37741;Love is based on imagination.;Olivier Martinez;imagination

• 37742;My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.;Patricia Highsmith;imagination

• 37743;The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.;Ai Weiwei;imagination

• 37744;I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.;John Irving;imagination

• 37745;A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.;Percy Ross;imagination

• 37746;I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.;Steve Lacy;imagination

• 37747;Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch! Bill Bradley"

• Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. Edward Abbey

• Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? Leonardo da Vinci

• No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination. Anne Sullivan Macy

• Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. Gaston Bachelard

• Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully. William C. Bryant

• Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination. Alfred North Whitehead

• Imagination needs to be fed. Barbara Januszkiewicz

• I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse. Walt Disney

• The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. Henry Ward Beecher

• You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization. Denis Waitley

• Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination. Tycho Brahe

• I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on. Dave Attell

• Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind's eye. That's an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition. Joshua Foer

• The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer. Charles Kettering

• You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination. Danny Boyle

• Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. J. K. Rowling

• Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted. Blaise Pascal