In this post, you will find great Imagination Quotes from famous people, such as Derek Walcott, Margot Lee Shetterly, Erin Morgenstern, Arthur C. Clarke, Mary Wesley. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
I don’t think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
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.
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
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.
The hoax is the very absence of truth, which usually means art is absent, too – hoaxes regularly substitute claims of reality for imagination, facts for form, acting as if artifice is the antithesis of art.
I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.
The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements – order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious.
Visualization – it’s been huge for me. Your mind doesn’t know the difference between imagination and reality. You can’t always practice perfectly – my fingers will play a little bit out of tune, or my dance moves might not be as sharp – but in my mind, I can practice perfectly.
I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I’ve got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.
Without imagination and without love, life can be pretty bleak. I think having both will get you through the most dire of situations.
I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she‘d seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There’s a part of me that still believes it.
When you believe in what you’re doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We’re always trying to transcend.
So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That’s why I don’t mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.
To bring anything into your life, imagine that it’s already there.
You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination – at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.
The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is ‘write what you know,’ and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, ‘You can write about anything you can imagine.’
I write from my imagination, not from what I’ve read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
I stare out the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevitable failure of one’s imagination and one’s goals and ambitions to create a character or a life worth saving.
The degree in which a poet’s imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
I’ve proven I’m courageous. I’m gutsier than anybody; I’ve got a better imagination than anybody; I’m essentially more creative than any other actor I know, and I’ve proven I take risks. I don’t think I need to prove anything to myself any more.
I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that’s unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.
President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.
Only in your imagination can you revise.
Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.
Ultimately it’s a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.
Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It’s about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.
You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can’t even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.
I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn’t gone away.
My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that – with my background – my own son would become an FBI agent.
He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
Imagination is the air of mind.
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it – often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.
I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don’t mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn’t need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.
The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we’re disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.
Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience’s imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there’s no fourth wall.
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.
Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that’s all you have.
Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
The capacity you’re thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
People can’t just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.
What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.
The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience – anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.
I think it’s fun to play with worlds that you can add a lot of your own imagination to. With ‘True Blood,’ you’re not limited by anything, there are just leaps and bounds of the imagination you can take with these characters.
Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.
Well, I think that as a country, we’ve drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.
I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle – the more you use it, the stronger it gets.
Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.
Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it’s real.
Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.
I may have been sexy, but I was covered up total. There was something left to the imagination.
I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it’s myself at eight. Because that’s when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they’re an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.
Mine is not an autonomous imagination.
On the sets of the movie ‘Manto,’ I found that one of the challenges of embodying real-life stories is the mixed medium of facts and imagination, and how one’s collage of experiences colour ones representation on celluloid.
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.
Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
It’s a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don’t have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
It’s almost like living a double life where I’m in a limbo space where Amanda Knox, a real person, exists, ‘Foxy Knoxy,’ an idea of a person, exists, and I’m constantly having to juggle how someone is interacting with me based upon that two-dimensional person of me that has been in the public‘s imagination for so long.
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it’s a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.
Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
It’s a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don’t like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that I’ve been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
With your imagination, you can go anywhere or do anything, anything is possible.
But in a 24-hour day, the 25th hour is also the impossible hour, an hour that doesn’t exist, that can only be created by the imagination.
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
I don’t need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need.
I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
I consider myself very fortunate indeed to have created a character which has captured the imagination and enthusiasm of so many children worldwide. They are my family, and Spot belongs to them all.
I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.
Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I’m a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.
I do rely on my instincts a lot and my imagination.
One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one’s horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?
I’m not claiming that football is the nation‘s salvation in this area, but it’s one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can’t be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.
Use your imagination. Look around the kitchen and see what you can use.
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful – a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.
The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you’re given – that’s definitely something I can sort of relate to.
Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.
Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Imagination creates reality.
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.
I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It’s just a characteristic.
I’ve got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.
I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.
I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What’s a soul? What’s it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?
All of imagination – everything that we think, we feel, we sense – comes through the human brain. And once we create new patterns in this brain, once we shape the brain in a new way, it never returns to its original shape.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
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.
We also maintain – again with perfect truth – that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.
Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.
It’s just a way of trying to get to a third thing that’s not particular to any quote-unquote genre. It’s been great for me; it’s really opened me up and gotten me to use that part of my imagination. It’s very scary in a lot of ways, and just as exciting.
You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.
Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.
In imagination, there’s no limitation.
The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it’s a big problem.
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.
Given free rein, our imagination can get infinite.
Nowadays people’s visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
There’s just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can’t know it all, and that’s where imagination can work.
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.
I think humans have always felt watched back by whatever is out there flickering in the distance. What excites me is what the imagination creates, not simply in explanation of what is there but also to explain or justify the feeling of awe and attachment that the heavens inspire.
Human imagination is so much more potent than anything we could put down in words.
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
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.
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.
Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it’s always been there. It’s been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.
As a boy, the very words ‘Liberty Bell‘ and ‘Independence Hall’ fired my imagination and made a profound and lasting impression on my mind. Throughout my struggle to secure national freedom for China, I have continuously dreamed of the day when she would assume the full stature of an independent, democratic nation.
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.
I grew up in the ’80s where there’s a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you’re not supposed to.
I don’t know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I’m glad he’s coming back. It’s going to be good for the show.
I have got a good imagination.
I’ve learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
I think what’s really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.
For me, it’s always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.
There’s no great mystery to acting. It’s a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It’s about asking questions and using your imagination.
The image of Stephen Hawking – who has died aged 76 – in his motorised wheelchair, with head contorted slightly to one side and hands crossed over to work the controls, caught the public imagination as a true symbol of the triumph of mind over matter.
Certainly I was a very religious child, a deeply weird and very emotional child, an only child with lots of imaginary friends and a very active imagination. I loved Sunday school and Bible camp and all that. I had my own white Bible with Jesus‘ words printed in red in the text; I even spoke at youth revivals.
No film has captivated my imagination more than ‘King Kong.’ I’m making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.
I really like Kickstarter because you don’t have to be a Medici to fund the arts and sciences or to get behind a big idea or a person that sparks your imagination. It’s a type of microfunding directed toward creators.
Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that’s karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there’s karma all over again.
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one’s imagination.
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
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.
Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else‘s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‘Keep Out’ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.
People are always saying it’s the end of the Gutenberg era. More to the point, it’s a return to an oral era. The Gutenberg galaxy was about the written word. At its best, the digital era is part of the rediscovery of the oral. At its worst, it’s a Kafkaesque victory of the bureaucratic over the imagination.
Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination – they don’t conform to the reality that’s around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
I’m a dreamer with lots of energy and a vivid imagination. That’s the recipe for becoming an entertainer.
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
Only in men’s imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.
What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, ‘Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,’ reducing it to a simple formula.
People can die of mere imagination.
My imagination is a twisted place.
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
On ‘Into The Wild’ I spent months risking my life and on ‘Speed Racer’ I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.
Imagination… its limits are only those of the mind itself.
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.
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
I hope my kids see imagination has power to change everything.
I’ve always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.
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.
You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.
By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
I think that in the cultural imagination, motherhood has a primacy that fatherhood just doesn’t; and that’s not to say that there aren’t many fathers who are active and engaged and for whom that is their life’s passion. But somehow, in the imagination, there’s something different about maternity.
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it’s great to be a part of and watch.
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.
It’s amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas hurts not only individual creators but the audience for which they create and the posterity that inherits their legacy.
Good movies beget other good movies. So when a movie captures the imagination and hearts of people around the world, it’s going to have a positive influence on similar genres getting made.
Usually I say I have no imagination.
I got a great imagination, and I pay close attention to my surroundings and I’m very observant.
If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude… I hope to make you use your imagination.
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper!
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.
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.
Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
Nature’s imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.
For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.
I’m only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.
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.
You are always drawing from your personal life and using your imagination to fill in the blanks.
I’ve done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.
I have a visual imagination.
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what’s going on.
Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.
Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it’s produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.
Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.
People know that they’re going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it’s in. It’s dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination – it’s not straight forward.
There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.
It’s through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.
As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.
My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what’s in their imagination. What’s the world going to look like when they’re my age? That really does take a huge imagination.
Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men.
Loving a country is an act of the imagination.
It’s not only imagination, it’s the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.
I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.
I came from a childhood where I spent a lot of time alone and a lot of time just living with my imagination, and a certain amount of the adult world was kind of alienating.
Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.
Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
From the boys’ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.
My life has been a gift up to this point, and I’ve been blessed beyond my wildest imagination. And wherever this ride takes me is where I’m going.
I guess what I’ve learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It’s limitless.
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.
I’m an optimistic guy. I’m one of those big dreamers. I’m one of those kids with that annoying imagination.
Some stories are true that never happened.
What I love most about animation is, it’s a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.
Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.
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.
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I’ve left the opera house.
Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan… believe… act!
They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director’s imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.
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.
It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.
I’ve always had an active imagination.
It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.
My identity is linked to my grandmother, who’s pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that’s how I identify.
Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20’s, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one’s imagination.
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.
We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.
When you’re starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that’s gone before and the stuff that’s influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that’s where you start from.
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
Imagination comes of not having things.
Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn’t. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.
The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.
But there is so much more to do for the city we love… a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.
A place makes a deep impression on you when you’re young. It lives with you. It’s like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
And, as I have said, it’s made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren’t external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.
Don Quixote‘s misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
The imagination is an innate gift, but it needs refinement and cultivation; this is what the humanities provide.
The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn’t leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don’t have a problem with it because of the way this character’s been written.
I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That’s very true.
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
Love is based on imagination.
I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I’m likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.
I love video games. I’m also slightly in awe of them. I’m in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept. But I think, above all, I’m in awe at their power to motivate, to compel us, to transfix us, like really nothing else we’ve ever invented has quite done before.
You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life.
I think we’re all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there’s nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.
I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.
The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
Imagination creates some big monsters.
I’m ever curious about the world. I’m driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one’s memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.
I’ll confess right here that I secretly wish I’d have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.
You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn’t exist.
Imagination rules the world.
Justice is to be found only in imagination.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Trust that little voice in your head that says ‘Wouldn’t it be interesting if…’; And then do it.
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
Doubt is the father of invention.
The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
I’ve got quite a vivid imagination and I’m easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a ghost – I think I’m probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.
I do not ‘get’ ideas; ideas get me.
Learning a musical instrument is challenging, it demands fine motor skills and coordination. It develops children’s listening, thinking skills, imagination and perseverance. It brings out the very best in the children as they work collaboratively with their peers and teachers.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.
I’m not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.
Synthesizers can be programmed with more imagination than a real, ‘human’ performance. It’s a joyful thing.
It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.
Sometimes when you’ve got too much money you lose your imagination.
A lady‘s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
Sometimes, to stimulate your imagination you have to be careful you don’t have too much information. You can Google something, and it’s in your face, pow! You don’t have time to dream any more about it.
The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one’s own imagination.
It’s a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I’ve never had any trouble identifying with the character that I’m playing.
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
There’s no environment. Use your imagination. There’s no fourth wall, whether it’s the first time you’ve told this story about her life, or the sixth time.
If you don’t pay attention and if your imagination isn’t pretty much engaged, you’re going to miss things and you’re going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.
I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia‘s appearances to the reader’s imagination.
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.
I grew up in this room filled with musical instruments, but most importantly, I had a family who encouraged me to invest in my own imagination, and so things I created, things I built were good things to be building just because I was making them, and I think that’s such an important idea.
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
What’s in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.
Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.
Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.
Well, I think that – I think leadership’s always been about two main things: imagination and courage.
Walt Disney had a nuclear imagination before the advent of nuclear, some comprehension of apocalypse and rapture deep in his genes.
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
Imagination decides everything.
To me, it’s far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It’s far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.
Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
Vision – It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
There’s no artist in this world that doesn’t enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats can redeem them, in their fantasy or imagination, in the future. I think Keats’ poem ‘Endymion’ is a really difficult poem, and I’m not surprised that a lot of people pulled it apart in a way.
Passion is what gives meaning to our lives. It’s what allows us to achieve success beyond our wildest imagination. Try to find a career path that you have a passion for.
I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.
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.
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
It’s a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know – we have to be able to imagine different worlds.
Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You’re constantly depicting something that doesn’t exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.
Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
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.
Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.
I suspect that one of capitalism‘s crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
‘Avatar‘ is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but it’s put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone.
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination.
I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn’t that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that’s when your creativity is developed, when you’re young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.
The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
I don’t know if I am a good, average, or bad writer, but I write fast. Everything I observe, my experiences and imagination come together while writing.
Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it’s a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you’re not playing yourself.
I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius – the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It’s the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.
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.
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.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?
I’m not a perfect human being by any stretch of the imagination. But there is always this little voice inside of me that keeps me where I know I need to be.
Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.
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.
The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination – what do you dream of wanting to do?
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
My mom would always read a book to me at night from when I was three. Now, I can’t go to sleep without reading a book. At the same time, once I read, it’s difficult for me to go to sleep, as I have an overactive imagination and I start thinking.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Every parent knows this moment in a child’s age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it’s the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It’s such a responsibility.
Busted is not the ideal band I’d like to be in by any stretch of the imagination.
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
We especially need imagination in science.
The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It’s also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.
‘Castle’ is a guy living in a fantasy world. He’s in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character’s actions or lines are truer than others.
My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination – very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted.
In the imagination, Harlem will always be the spiritual capital of black excellence in America.
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.
Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
She has no imagination and that means no compassion.
