top of page
.png){kind=small}
Imagination Quotes
"And from the midst of cheerless gloomI passed to bright unclouded day."
31
"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."
31
"If I could just get Broom to cooperate, we could fly, Glo said. Then we wouldn't have to worry about traffic. Harry Potter didn't have to worry about traffic.You relize Harry Potter isn't real, right? Of course, but he could be. I mean, maybe not Harry Potter, but someone like him. Who's to say?"
31
"The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling."
31
"Re-imagination is the birthplace for vision and change. Your imagination is one of the most valuable talents you have and deserves your full attention. Imagining how you want to live your life is one thing, but connecting your imagination to a visual representation will give you exactly the traction you need to make it a reality."
31
"To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination."
31
"The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination."
30
"There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination."
30
"The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination."
30
"Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark."
30
"You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies; we do."
30
"It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget."
30
"The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place."
30
"It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened - an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness."
30
"Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it."
30
"Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only."
30
"Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have."
30
"I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action."
30
"Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something."
30
"Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster."
30
"I believe in the goodness of imagination."
30
"Inside your dream is a nation. To the rest of the world it is invisible, yet it is the only thing you see. It is your imagination."
30
"When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist."
30
"There are so many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and proasic with the poison of life."
30
"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."
29
"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."
29
"The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer."
29
"Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men."
29
"I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show."
29
"You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist."
29
"People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination."
29
"People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go."
29
"As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect."
29
"Of course! the path to heavendoesn't lie down in flat miles.It's in the imaginationwith which you perceive this world,and the gestureswith which you honor it.-from The Swan."
29
"She's never where she is, ' I said. 'She's only inside her head."
29
"I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see."
28
"I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination."
28
"Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute."
28
"When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination."
28
"I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid."
28
"You don't need to be a scientist to know how powerful your imagination is."
28
"The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man."
28
"Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron."
28
"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."
28
"Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts."
28
"Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon."
28
"Politics is the enemy of the imagination."
28
"I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do."
28
"Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it."
27
"Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them."
27
bottom of page