Yehudi Menuhin Quotes

What fascinated my imagination was the tremendous feat, which I felt I should be perfectly able to accomplish.

Yehudi Menuhin

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• No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Imagination
  • Thought
  • Cats

• Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Love
  • Reading
  • Powerful

• 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.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • America
  • Present
  • Dark

• Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Long
  • Imagination

• 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.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Words
  • Imagination

• 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.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Time
  • Light

• One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Imagination
  • Young
  • Facts

• 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.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Great
  • Giving
  • Education

• The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Play
  • Imagination
  • Debt

• We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Important
  • Imagination
  • Look

• 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'.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Think
  • Feeling
  • Imagination

• 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.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Imagination

• 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.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Mind
  • Creative
  • Hunger

• 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.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Great
  • Know
  • Imagination

• 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.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Death

• Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Art
  • Technology
  • Imagination

• I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Money
  • Why
  • Imagination

• I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Up
  • Imagination
  • Doubt

• 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.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on the real, those least diluted by my imagination.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• When I was younger, it was like, 'Yay, lesbians love me!' I didn't know there was a responsibility that came with it.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Love
  • Me
  • Responsibility

• If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Good
  • Done
  • Job

• What fascinated my imagination was the tremendous feat, which I felt I should be perfectly able to accomplish.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Imagination