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Imagination Quotes
"Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous."
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"Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine."
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"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."
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"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination."
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"Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing."
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"All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination."
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"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."
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"If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers."
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"Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!"
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"Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love."
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"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."
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"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
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"One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm."
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"Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination."
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"The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him."
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"A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist."
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"To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination."
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"In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true."
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"I like photographs which leave something to the imagination."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves."
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"When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination."
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"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."
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"War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination."
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"Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful."
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"Science does not know its debt to imagination."
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"When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you."
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"Where there is no imagination there is no horror."
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"Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice."
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"Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made."
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"Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination."
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"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."
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