Imagination Quotes
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A little imagination goes a long way in Fes.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
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Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams.
Sigmund Freud
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Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.
Amy Waldman
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What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.
Jeffrey Katzenberg
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He hath consumed a whole night in lying looking to his great toe, about which he hath seen Tartars and Turks, Romans and Carthaginians, fight in his imagination.
Ben Jonson
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Chess is imagination.
David Bronstein
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When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.
Paul Claudel
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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
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Trouble shots are surprisingly easy if you activate your imagination. You simply must be able to imagine exactly what flight the ball will take before you can play any shot well.
Walter Hagen
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Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?
Ruby Wax
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It's the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.
Matt Reeves
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My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
Clara Schumann
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When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
Terry Brooks
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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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The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.
Claudia Rankine
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A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because imagination, ignorance, and the conviction of utter helplessness are untempered either by reason or by experience.
E. M. Delafield
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts.
William Shakespeare
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Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.
Pola Negri
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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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So many of Spielberg's films inspired my imagination growing up. And then there are British films like 'The Full Monty' and 'Waking Ned Devine' that took me to places I really loved, with characters I just thought were amazing. But the films of Luc Besson showed me France - a really cool side of France.
Doug Liman
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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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Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.
Oscar Wilde
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There is something strangely winning to most women in that offer of the firm arm; the help is not wanted physically at that moment, but the sense of help, the presence of strength that is outside them and yet theirs, meets a continual want of the imagination.
George Eliot