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Imagination Quotes
"His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it."
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"There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory."
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"Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction."
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"Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too."
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"You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist."
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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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"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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"The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships."
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"The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates."
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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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"There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination."
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"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."
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"One longs for a director with a sense of imagination."
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"How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination."
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"Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect."
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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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"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."
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"For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination."
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"You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination."
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"Can you hear the dreams crackling like a campfire? Can you hear the dreams sweeping through the pine trees and tipis? Can you hear the dreams laughing in the sawdust? Can you hear the dreams shaking just a little bit as the day grows long? Can you hear the dreams putting on a good jacket that smells of fry bread and sweet smoke? Can you hear the dreams stay up late and talk so many stories?"
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"Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only."
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"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."
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"On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer."
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"Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care."
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"Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon."
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"To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination."
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"It's just a way of trying to get to a third thing that's not particular to any quote-unquote genre. It's been great for me; it's really opened me up and gotten me to use that part of my imagination. It's very scary in a lot of ways, and just as exciting."
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"There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination."
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"A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions."
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"A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds."
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"Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza."
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"Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it."
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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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"Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination."
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"Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense."
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"The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination."
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"I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination."
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"It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope."
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"Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us al, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged. But it's in there, deep inside, a spark waiting to set a touch-paper alight."
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"I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the world."
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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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"Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory."
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"Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand?Tonight when the stars come out and the moon rises in the velvet sky, look outside your window, then raise your hand and position your fingers around the disk of light.There you go . . . That was easy!"
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"Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste."
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"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."
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"Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible."
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"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."
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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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"It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine."
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