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Imagination Quotes
"It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world."
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"His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore."
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"The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination."
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"Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction."
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"Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't."
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"Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books."
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"When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed."
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"Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind."
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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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"If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be."
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"Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things."
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"What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out."
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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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"There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness."
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"The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future."
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"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet."
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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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"Lunar Eclipse doesn't that sound like a car you can only drive at night?"
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"To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination."
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"Imagination holds the key to finding potentials to pursue."
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"I often wonder if my imagination is one of God's choicest gifts bestowed upon me to deliberately break me free from the frequent doldrums of my humanity."
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"A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate."
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"Dreams are our only geography-our native land."
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"Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination."
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"Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!""
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"It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing."
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"To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination."
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"One longs for a director with a sense of imagination."
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"Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory."
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"There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny."
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"When you dream, you activate the possibility of what some call impossible."
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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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"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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"For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination."
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"My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, allow the imagination to be freed, and we are charged with the capability of heighetned thought.Learn to use your eyes as if they are your ears, he said, and you become connected with the ancient heritage of man, a dream world for the waking mind."
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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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"Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on."
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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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"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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"I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can."
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"The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem."
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"Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own."
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"Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you."
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"It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it."
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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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"The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale..."
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