Imagination Quotes
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
George Eliot
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All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.
Tommy Lee Jones
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The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.
Wayne Shorter
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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.
Jane Goldman
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I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the spiritual as well as the material. I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, and I've always been interested in visionaries.
Peter Ackroyd
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir
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Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere.
Charles Sanders Peirce
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I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the imagination and delirium of Gaudi. I must design what pleases me in a way that is naturally linked to my roots and the country of my origin.
Oscar Niemeyer
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I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it dries up I'll stop and look for another career.
J. G. Ballard
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Why should the imagination of a man Long past his prime remember things that are Emblematical of love and war?
William Butler Yeats
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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.
Wallace Stevens
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Sometimes, to stimulate your imagination you have to be careful you don't have too much information. You can Google something, and it's in your face, pow! You don't have time to dream any more about it.
Dries van Noten
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You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
Denis Waitley
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The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist.
Pete Hamill
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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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The longer I look at something, the more my imagination churns and I can find somewhere to put it.
Alex Guarnaschelli
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There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But he still says so. There was no link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaida. But he still says so. And thus, gripping firmly these figments of his own imagination, Mr. Cheney lives on, in defiance, and spreads - around him and before him - darkness, like some contagion of fear. They are never wrong, and they never regret - admirable in a French torch singer, cataclysmic in an American leader.
Keith Olbermann
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The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.
Erik Erikson
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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
Barry Cornwall
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Executives are constrained not by resources but by their imagination.
C. K. Prahalad
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My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.
Andre Dubus III
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In college I wrote for the university newspaper, and I had several short stories published in small press. I think it's just been a natural progression of where to go with the imagination and not have to grow up.
Gabriel Campisi
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I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.
Mary Wesley
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If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.
Connie Nielsen