Imagination Quotes

Ursula k. leguin - imagination grows by exercise and contrary to...
I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.
Author Unknown
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.
Christopher Isherwood
The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.
Bill Bernbach
The great successful men of the world have used their imagination... they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - - Steadily building.
Robert J. Collie
Arnold j. toynbee - apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and...
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
Barbara Garrison
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
David Bailey
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Oscar Wilde
The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.
Eug? ne Delacroix
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. .. And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.
Michel de Montaigne
Jean jacques rousseau - the world of reality has its limits the world of...
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Gloria Steinem
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Lauren Bacall
Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.
Melissa Maye
The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building.
Robert Collie
Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
Henry Havelock Ellis
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Author Unknown
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
Richard Hofstadte
The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.
Dominique Bouhours
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950)
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Ultimately nature and events are largely what our imaginations make them out to be.
Jose Vasconcelos
So you see, imagination needs moodling - Long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
Brenda Ueland
It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them.
H. G. Wells, Preface of "The Complete Science - Fiction Treasury of H. G. Wells".
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.
W. Somerset Maugham
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Dr. Robert Schulle
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
Mark Twain
If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self - Interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
Napoleon Hill
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard, "Artist Descending a Staircase".
Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.
Dr. Maxwell Maltz
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence.
Henry Louis Mencken
Imagination is a quality given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humaor is provided to console him from what he is.
Oscar Wilde
Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.
Bruce Lee
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil