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Imagination Quotes
"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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"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."
64
"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination."
64
"Claire was struggling through last summer's diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles, black leather gloves, and a black and silver walking stick with a dragon's head on it. And, on his lapel was a button that said, If you can read this, thank a teacher."
51
"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."
41
"If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers."
40
"Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love."
39
"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."
39
"Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!"
37
"I believe we owe it to each other to tell stories. It's as close to a credo as I have or will, I suspect, ever get."
36
"Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination."
36
"The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination."
32
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
32
"A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist."
29
"Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt."
27
"One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm."
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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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"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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"Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves."
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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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"A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one."
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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."
22
"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."
22
"Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth."
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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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"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."
21
"War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination."
21
"I like photographs which leave something to the imagination."
21
"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."
21
"Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination."
20
"We especially need imagination in science."
20
"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."
20
"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."
20
"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."
20
"Science does not know its debt to imagination."
20
"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."
19
"When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference."
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"Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit."
19
"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."
19
"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."
19
"Things aren't like this," he kept repeating. "It shouldn't be this way." As if he had access to some other plane of existence, some parallel, "right" universe, and had sensed that our time had somehow been put out of joint. Such was his vehemence that I found myself believing him, believing, for example, in the possibility of that other life in which Vina had never left and we were making our lives together, all three of us, ascending together to the stars. Then he shook his head, and the spell broke. He opened his eyes, grinning ruefully. As if he knew his thoughts had infected mine. As if he knew his power. "Better get on with it," he said. "Make do with what there is."
19
"A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache."
18
"Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination."
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