Imagination Quotes
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In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens.
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We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.
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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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Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick.
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While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a childs imagination.
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Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
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The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.
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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 sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.
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No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.
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Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.
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Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.
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It requires some intelligent reframing to make people see commonalities that they don't otherwise see. To me, the Tea Party and the Occupy movement are, in many ways, saying the same thing, but it requires a bit of imagination to get people to see that.
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Imagination without reason produces impossible monsters; with reason, it becomes the mother of the arts, and the source of its marvels.
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Imagination makes cowards of us all.
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Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
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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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There is nothing more important than developing your imagination to transform your life from the inside world of your thoughts and feelings to the outside world of your results and manifestations.
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The human imagination can connect to practically anything.
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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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When someone hears that I've written a book about 1897, I'm usually met with blank stares. And the first thing they say is, 'Was there even an L.A. back then?' A lot of people don't even think there was a city before the movies appeared. That concept of Los Angeles is so strong in the popular imagination that celebrity overrides everything.
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Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.
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Theatre is a voyage into the archives of the human imagination
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I had to learn that a good actor, like an iceberg, reveals only a small part of his ability on the surface. You suggest; you don't serve on a platter. You hold back. You don't expose it all to view. That's the way to put the audience's imagination to work.
