Imagination Quotes
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I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.
Jerzy Kosinski
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There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
William Godwin
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The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.
Claudia Rankine
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I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.
J. G. Ballard
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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
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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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I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.
Berkeley Breathed
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I am not afraid of beauty, unlike most artists today. The pollen, the milk, the beeswax, they have a beauty that is incredible, that is beyond the imagination, something which you cannot believe is a reality-and it is the most real. I could not make it myself, I could not create it myself, but I can participate in it. Trying to create it yourself is only a tragedy, participating in it is a big chance.
Wolfgang Laib
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People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.
Matt Reeves
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Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention.
Alain Robbe-Grillet
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I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.
Lisi Harrison
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Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.
Ewan McGregor
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Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing anew; it has no imagination.
Alfred Binet
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In research, I wanted to establish the medicinal chemistry/bioassay conjugation as an academic pursuit, as exciting to the imagination as astrophysics or molecular biology.
James Black
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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
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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