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Imagination Quotes
"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the 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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"Dreams are our only geography-our native land."
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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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"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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"When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied."
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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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"Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality."
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"He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts."
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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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"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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"Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times."
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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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"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."
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"Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have."
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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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"This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts."
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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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"When you're young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!"
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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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"The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer."
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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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"If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted."
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"But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?"
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"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."
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"Everyone knew what he was thinking. Certainly there were demons in the world. But they were like Tehlu's angels. They were like heroes and kings. They belonged in stories. They belonged out there. Taborlin the Great called up fire and lightning to destroy demons. Tehlu broke them in his hands and sent them howling into the nameless void. Your childhood friend didn't stomp one to death on the road to Baedn-Bryt. It was ridiculous."
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"I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination."
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"To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."
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"Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination."
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"In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted."
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"The money will talk?' said Mr Spools carefully.'Imps,' said Moist. 'They're only a sort of intelligent spell. They don't even have to have a shape. We'll print them on the higher denominations."
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"The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."
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"Imagination has a great deal to do with winning."
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"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."
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"The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them."
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"A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination."
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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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"Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries."
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"At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration."
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"My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people."
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"To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination."
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"Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit."
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"Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days."
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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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"What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination."
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"The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination."
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"The power of imagination makes us infinite."
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