Imagination Quotes
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Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
I'm not driven. I love writing. My imagination is always working. I write when I have time, and life allows me the time.
Max Apple
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I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.
W. A. Criswell -
Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination.
Max Planck -
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
Lionel Trilling -
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
David Hume -
A few things make a person stylish: honesty, imagination with a sprinkling of humour. I still keep an eye on trends, but I don't follow them any more.
Maxine Peake -
I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.
Andrew Wyeth
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You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.
Amy Sedaris -
Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.
Alain LeRoy Locke -
They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them.
G. H. Hardy -
Executives are constrained not by resources but by their imagination.
C. K. Prahalad -
I like the idea of letting the music do its own work and the stories being more expressionful - if that's a word - in people's imagination. I've just got a thing about people and songs telling you how you should feel.
Johnny Flynn -
History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.
Jennifer Gilmore
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Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.
Laurette Taylor -
Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination.
Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead -
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.
Bruce Sterling -
The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.
William Friedkin -
When I was a child, I was reading books filled with people different from me, all French, all foreigners. There was a sense of disconnect between my sense of imagination and the world around me, which I don't think is common for Americans. It forces you to learn to look at the world through other people's eyes.
Laila Lalami -
Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.
Ken Robinson
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Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish.
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi -
Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy. Remember, the other day I gave you the example of what I mean, what the difference between fantasy and imagination is. I gave you the example of the man who invented the of the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking.
Jacques Lipchitz -
Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.
Oscar Wilde -
Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
Helen Keller