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Imagination Quotes
"My thoughts are stars I can't fanthom into constellations."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations."
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"I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see."
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"Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination."
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"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."
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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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"A pier is a disappointed bridge, yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel."
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"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."
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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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"Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions."
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"Mandy would much rather have imaginary friends who were real than real friends who were imaginary."
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"The great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open."
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"My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day."
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"And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth."
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"Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it."
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"When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment."
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"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
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"Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."
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"Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe."
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"I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend..."
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"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."
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"We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here."
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"Glory went to look in on her father. He lay on his right side, his face composed, intent on sleep. His hair had been brushed into a soft white cloud, like harmless aspiration, like a mist given off by the endless work of dreaming."
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"Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right."
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"The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality."
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"Things as they appear every day and as they are engraved in our memory, facts and occurrences as they are perceived by senses, create an intricate labyrinth in the mind. The way how things are experienced in our environment and how they react in the arsenal of our imagination, creates a torrent of inspiring ideas that flood the speedy highways of our brains. [' Labyrinth of the mind ']"
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"There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination."
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"I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea."
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"The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination."
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"Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?"
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"What mattered was that the room over the junk-shop should exist. To know that it was there, inviolate, was almost the same as being in it. The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk."
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."
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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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"I'll bet every fucking one of your angels is going to be terrifying!"
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"Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never."
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"Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry.Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition.Now it can build castles and cities and whole ice continents with your breath's vapor.In a few blinks you can almost see the winter fairies moving in . . .But first, you hear the crackle of their wings."
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"Silly little monster all would say.They'd scratch its head and turn awayuntil it snatched their tiny noses.They couldn't even smell the roses!Ever after, every childdreaded monsters, fierce or mild."
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"The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion."
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"Yes, the house must be inhabited, and we will see by whom; for imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity."
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"Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world."
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"Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points."
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"Never tell to much. The monster is always scarier when it is still under the child's bed."
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"In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications must remain in the dark. An invented figure like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary emerges fully into the light of understanding, which brings with it identification, sympathy and pity."
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"Imagined happiness is still happiness."
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"The good news is that God gave us imaginations because he wanted us to take a tour into our future, see what's there for us and then we prepare to relocate into it!"
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"I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant."
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"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."
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