Yehudi Menuhin Quotes
What fascinated my imagination was the tremendous feat, which I felt I should be perfectly able to accomplish.
Quotes to Explore
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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
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Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
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I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
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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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In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.
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I'm just the second Bodhi. I think there will be more. I have the feeling this is only the first re-imagination of 'Point Break'.
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The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They're all intertwined.
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If I see something new, I'd be like, 'Ooh, I want to do that.' The hunger to learn and do better never goes. Your mind is always working. You want to do so many creative things.
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I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.
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I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
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I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
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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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I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.
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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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When you're running around and playing, it's amazing ground for imagination, and that's really the biggest muscle you need for anything in the arts. I think it's probably the biggest training I've had.
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Once a fighter becomes enamoured with another, to the point where they can't perform and compete, you have got problems.
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The Negro does not want love. He wants justice . . . I believe it would be better for the Negro's soul to be seared with hate than dwarfed by self-abasement.
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If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
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What fascinated my imagination was the tremendous feat, which I felt I should be perfectly able to accomplish.
