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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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"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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"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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"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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"If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers."
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"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."
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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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"One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm."
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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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"A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist."
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"Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love."
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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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"Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination."
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"I like photographs which leave something to the imagination."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!"
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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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"Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves."
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"Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things."
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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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"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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"Where there is no imagination there is no horror."
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"A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination."
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"Dreams are our only geography-our native land."
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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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"Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything."
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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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"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."
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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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"Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times."
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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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"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."
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"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."
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"Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the 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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"Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is."
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"Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark."
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"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."
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