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Imagination Quotes
"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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"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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"Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment."
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"Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is."
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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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"Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it."
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"She would never forget how his soul was lonely as the moon they'd met under, and how, for several brief moments, she'd been able to chase the loneliness away."
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"I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel."
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"You don't need to be a scientist to know how powerful your imagination is."
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"It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget."
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"To imagine is to risk being mentally blind."
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"Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality."
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"She's never where she is, ' I said. 'She's only inside her head."
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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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"Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them."
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"I live within my daydreams and nightmares; through that, I have learned to create, and I never cease from doing so."
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"Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination."
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"It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope."
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"Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark."
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"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."
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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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"It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine."
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"True intelligence requires fabulous imagination."
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"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."
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"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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"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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"With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour."
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"The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable."
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"Mandy would much rather have imaginary friends who were real than real friends who were imaginary."
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"I imagined a labyrinth of labyrinths, a maze of mazes, a twisting, turning, ever-widening labyrinth that contained both past and future and somehow implied the stars. Absorbed in those illusory imaginings, I forgot that I was a pursued man; I felt myself, for an indefinite while, the abstract perceiver of the world. The vague, living countryside, the moon, the remains of the day did their work in me; so did the gently downward road, which forestalled all possibility of weariness. The evening was near, yet infinite."
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"I believe in the goodness of imagination."
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"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."
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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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"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain."
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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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"The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination."
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"Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will."
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"The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma."
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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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"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."
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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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"Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat."
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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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"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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"Sometimes I dreamthat everything in the world is here, in my room, in a great closet, named and orderly,and I am here too, in front of it, hardly able to see for the flash and the brightness-and sometimes I am that madcap person clapping my hands and singing; and sometimes I am that quiet person down on my knees."
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"You deserve to be cherished, Sid, your body worshipped with tenderness...' 'We have all night for that,' she said in a sultry whisper she didn't recognize. The red-hot desire thrumming through her wasn't like anything she'd experienced before. 'I'm excellent at all night."
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"I day dream.Therefore, I am the queen, of my thoughts.Though thirteen, I drift, between, one conception, to another.I create opinions, liberate dilemmas, assert convictions, deal paroxysm, create perfections.I am neither, a thinker, nor a, perceiver, I am a Day Dreamer"
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