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Imagination Quotes
"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."
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"Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth."
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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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"War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination."
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"People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward."
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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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"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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"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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"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination."
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"The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture."
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"By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment."
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"The power of imagination makes us infinite."
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"Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself."
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"Science does not know its debt to imagination."
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"I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination."
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"Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination."
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"A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination."
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"I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination."
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"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."
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"This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts."
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"Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world."
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"Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind."
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"Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world."
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"It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income."
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"But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination."
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"A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy.And that love could fill the real world with magic."
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"Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,' he said.'That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,' said Abrenuncio. 'If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur."
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"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
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"But what is a dream, Conor O'Malley? Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?"
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"Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't."
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"One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap."
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"Dreams are our only geography-our native land."
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"Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else."
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"Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination."
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"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."
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"When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception."
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"Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination."
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"Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall."
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"Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things."
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"Imagination is but another name for super intelligence."
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"To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination."
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"The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets."
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"If there weren't so many interesting conversations taking place inside my head, I might venture to speak out loud."
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