top of page
.png){kind=small}
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."
186
"Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous."
148
"Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love."
144
"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination."
144
"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."
140
"All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination."
129
"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."
121
"If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers."
114
"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."
86
"The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination."
73
"Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination."
68
"Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!"
64
"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."
63
"But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?"
61
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
61
"I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist."
61
"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."
60
"When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference."
59
"Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt."
57
"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."
57
"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."
57
"Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it's all in my mind."
57
"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."
56
"A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache."
55
"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."
55
"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."
55
"Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination."
54
"When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you."
54
"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."
54
"A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one."
53
"A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist."
53
"A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination."
52
"The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination."
52
"An idea is salvation by imagination."
52
"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."
51
"Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the way that a dream can colour one's entire day."
51
"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."
50
"Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth."
50
"Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves."
49
"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."
49
"If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination."
49
"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."
49
"We especially need imagination in science."
48
"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."
48
"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."
48
"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."
47
"Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world."
47
bottom of page