Imagination Quotes
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Avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination.
Sara Coleridge
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We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.
Ariel Dorfman
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
William Butler Yeats
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The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination.
John Cassavetes
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It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.
Salman Rushdie
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I wanted to be her; I wanted to write her. Red Sonja became anchored in my imagination like a mountain.
Marjorie Liu
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The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A liberal arts education is designed to equip students for just such flexibility and imagination.
Drew Gilpin Faust
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Theory should be ever more demanding of our empirical resources. Simultaneously, data should be ever more demanding of the empirical relevance of theory and of the theorist's expertise in working imaginatively on problems of the world, rather than on stylized problems of the imagination.
Vernon L. Smith
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Why do I have this imagination? It's the only one I've got!
Neil Gaiman
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I've always had a slightly overactive imagination.
Daniel Radcliffe
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I get ideas from my own personal experiences, from my imagination, and from my research and from old stories.
Mary Pope Osborne
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We have no limits to our world. We're only limited by our imagination.
Bob Ross
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
Iris Murdoch
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Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.
Elisabeth Sladen
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The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture - religions, justice, trade, the arts, science, technology.
Antonio Damasio
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Those who are seeking the true religion will never find it outside the Catholic Church alone, because, in every other religion, if they trace it up to the author, they will find some impostor whose imagination furnished a mass of sophisms and errors.
Alphonsus Liguori
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
Marquis de Sade
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The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.
Matthew Sweet
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Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It lives in the earth and the wind. The imagined tree imperceptibly becomes a cosmological tree, the tree which epitomises a universe, which makes a universe.
Gaston Bachelard
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I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
Billy Connolly
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I have a darker imagination than most people.
Edan Lepucki
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I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume of 'Nancy Drew' books all by myself by the time I reached the first grade. I loved stories. I loved the escape. I had a vivid imagination.
Rachel Nichols
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All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.
W. H. Auden
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I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?
Christina Aguilera