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Imagination Quotes
"It faintly irritated him that Zaphod had to impose some ludicrous fantasy on to the scene to make it work for him. All this Margrathea nonsense seemed juvenile. Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
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"And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five."
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"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination."
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"Science does not know its debt to imagination."
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"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."
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"A poet can imagine an iceberg singing a melancholic song while the world leaders find it difficult to imagine proper solution to global warming."
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"Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on."
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"We forget that what matters begins with the imagination."
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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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"Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made."
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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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"Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature."
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"I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful."
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"Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books."
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"Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination."
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"The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing."
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"For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity."
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"Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination."
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"My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical."
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"The Harvest Moon glows round and bold,In pumpkin shades outlined in gold,Illuminating eerie forms,Unnatural as a candied corn.Beware what dare crawls up your sleeve,For 'tis the night called Hallows Eve."
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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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"One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination."
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"Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination."
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"As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope."
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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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"The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable."
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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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"And people who don't dream, who don't have any kind of imaginative life, they must they must go nuts. I can't imagine that."
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"Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction."
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"Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did."
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"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed."
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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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"I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination."
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"I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you."
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"The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it."
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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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"Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell."
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"My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination."
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"It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it."
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"... so in that moment all the flowers in our garden and in M. Swann's park, and the water-lilies on the Vivonne and the good folk of the village and their little dwellings and the parish church and the whole of Combray and of its surroundings, taking their proper shapes and growing solid, sprang into being, town and gardens alike, from my cup of tea."
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"Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination."
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"Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself."
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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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"When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied."
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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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"Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination."
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