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Imagination Quotes
"One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm."
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"Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination."
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"Science does not know its debt to 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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"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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"Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself."
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"My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."
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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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"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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"Where there is no imagination there is no horror."
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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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"The imagination is man's power over nature."
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"It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income."
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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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"Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers."
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"He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart."
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"Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels."
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"The power of imagination makes us infinite."
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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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"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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"Have you ever pondered the miracle of popcorn? It starts out as a tiny, little, compact kernel with magic trapped inside that when agitated, bursts to create something marvelously desirable. It's sort of like those tiny, little thoughts trapped inside an author's head that-in an excited explosion of words-suddenly become a captivating fairytale!"
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"A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on."
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"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination."
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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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"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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"By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment."
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"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."
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"War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination."
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"One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet."
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"This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts."
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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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"Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things."
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"Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net."
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"A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination."
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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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"In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination."
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"Imagination is but another name for super intelligence."
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"I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive."
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"The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt."
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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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