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Imagination Quotes
"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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"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
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"The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."
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"I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman."
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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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"The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination."
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"Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without 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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"Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination."
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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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"Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels."
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"It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that."
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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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"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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"Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain."
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"The imagination is man's power over nature."
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"My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!"
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"That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow."
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"I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from."
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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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"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."
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"Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse."
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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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"He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts."
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"The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence."
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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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"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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"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."
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"Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on."
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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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"Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books."
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"Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind."
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"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination."
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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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"To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination."
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"George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create."
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"Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth."
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"He brought imagination to the story of the Creation."
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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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"I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be."
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"The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport."
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"Never give up the freeness of your soul. Live your duty to mankind, nurture creatures of this world as a true mother of the earth, but never shut your imagination off from those desires that distinguish you from the ordinary. Never allow yourself to be sapped of that extraordinary energy that is the necessary ingredient for creating something new and progressive."
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"An idea is salvation by imagination."
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"Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether."
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"I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there."
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"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet."
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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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"Lunar Eclipse doesn't that sound like a car you can only drive at night?"
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