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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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"If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers."
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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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"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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"Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love."
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"A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist."
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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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"Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!"
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"I like photographs which leave something to the imagination."
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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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"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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"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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"Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things."
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"War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination."
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"Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves."
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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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"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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"A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination."
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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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"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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"Dreams are our only geography-our native land."
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"Where there is no imagination there is no horror."
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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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"If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained within it creatures more horrible yet and men of other colors and beings which no man has looked upon and yet not alien none of it more than were their own hearts alien in them, whatever wilderness contained there and whatever beasts."
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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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"When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference."
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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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"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."
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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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"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."
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"The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible."
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