Imagination Quotes
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A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst of architects from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.
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Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
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I'm an optimistic guy. I'm one of those big dreamers. I'm one of those kids with that annoying imagination.
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I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.
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If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.
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We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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There is always an analogy between nature and the imagination, and possibly poetry is merely the strange rhetoric of that parallel.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they often play a key role in making markets run smoothly.
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Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.
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His chutzpah and his imagination in the scams and stings he pulled off were so imaginative and so courageous. Amazing. I loved the fact that he could pull off all of those professions. In a way, he's sort of the anti-hero that you root for, even though you know he's going to have to pay a price and go to jail
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Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.
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If we live out of our memory, we're tied to the past and to that which is finite. When we live out of our imagination, we're tied to that which is infinite.
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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
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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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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
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I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.
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When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
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If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
