Imagination Quotes
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To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play to the imagination. That is the way to create truly original science.
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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.
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I think most of the time you can make something happen, and it's about not letting your imagination be limited by that.
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Theatre is a voyage into the archives of the human imagination
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This is not a family of privilege by any stretch of the imagination. Our family is very low key.
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss and heath and wood to be torn away from the sides of the mountains, and the green mantle that lies near their feet to be lifted up; we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth, and so judge of the part played by each of them during those old convulsive movements whereby her limbs were contorted and drawn up into their present posture.
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The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.
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My experience of great storytelling, working with classics, is just finding a way to present it simply but let the story do its own work, or be an invite to the audience's imagination.
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What we acknowledged as a nation during the one-and-a-half year trial of George Zimmerman is that the white majority's public imagination of black people was based on their fear of us, not the reality of who we are.
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I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.
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All of imagination - everything that we think, we feel, we sense - comes through the human brain. And once we create new patterns in this brain, once we shape the brain in a new way, it never returns to its original shape.
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Children depend mightily on animals for comfort, inspiration, imagination, and art. And parents have long recognized this.
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In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly.
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It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view.
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To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.
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No photographer should be blamed when, instead of capturing reality, he tries to show things he has seen only in his imagination. Photography is the youngest art form. All attempts to enlarge its frontiers are important and should be encouraged.
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The real prize is never delivered by memory or by imagination, but by something above them.
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I often wonder why people remake movies. Is there just a lack of imagination out there that they can't come up with an original idea?
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I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.
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Americans rightly, but sometimes excessively, celebrate every person in uniform as a hero, but seldom honor the difficult and often dangerous work being done day after day by members of our diplomatic corps. Warriors capture the popular imagination more easily than peacemakers.
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No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt: fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other.
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I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.
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Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.
