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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.
L. Frank Baum -
I'm the youngest of four, but my closest sibling is 10 years older. I had a lot of imagination. I was running around playing little games by myself. But I never thought I was going to be an actor.
Daniel Breaker -
Only in your imagination can you revise.
Fay Wray -
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
Washington Irving -
Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.
Karl Philipp Moritz -
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
H. L. Mencken
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung -
Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
Yann Martel -
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 -
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 -
In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.
J. C. Watts -
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
Daniel Bell
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I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.
Edi Gathegi -
Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
e. e. cummings -
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 -
I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like radio candy... I like the ones that make you think, laugh or cry - they pull some kind of emotion out of you.
Gary Allan -
Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!
Walter Gropius
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These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same time, realistic enough to balance this kind of imagination and the process leading to it - not using violence, not trying to create chaos.
Wadah Khanfar -
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 -
Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
Philip James Bailey -
All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
Adam Gopnik -
I've lived publicly and never hidden behind closed doors. Therefore, if I have gone over the top sometimes, it has been visible.
John Hurt -
Imagination is an infinite resource that cannot be diminished by overuse or underuse.
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