Imagination Quotes
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To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is sleep, unconsciousness, or at least apparent unconsciousness, of creation. There in the awful silence and darkness, the rude first forms of life, phantomlike, demoniacal, pursue their horrible instincts.
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The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.
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The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape, In forms imaginary, th' unguided days And rotten times that you shall look upon When I am sleeping with my ancestors.
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Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.
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A fly rod extends a fly fisher's being as surely as do imagination, empathy or prayer.
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The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where all the plans for individual achievement are shaped.
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It's beyond imagination until you actually get up and see it and experience it and feel it.
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Man's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man's relation to the cosmos--to the unknown--which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination.
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I think at the moment we did not even want to break the seal on the inner chamber of the tomb of Tutankhamen, for a feeling of intrusion had descended heavily upon us... We felt that we were in the presence of the dead King and must do him reverence, and in imagination could see the doors of the successive shrines open one.
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Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.
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Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination, a speech, travel-but rather by the symbolic and often unconscious representations.
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To bolster his right flank and attract women voters, John McCain had cynically opted for a running mate who was, by any stretch of the imagination, unqualified for a position a heartbeat away from the presidency.
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Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts.
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Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
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The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.
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Fish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination.
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If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale.
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It's better to find a composition through an instrument and to play it and record it because you have something. It's a composition, and the song is good. It lives as a song. The worst is when you have a song and nothing is working well when you produce it. It's not like what you expect in your imagination. It's the worst because it requires a lot of work.
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If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.
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Life must not cease. That comes before everything. It is silly to say you do not care. You do care. It is that care that will prompt your imagination; inflame your desires; make your will irresistible; and create out of nothing.
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The unfortunate reality is the alt-right has captured white people's imagination.
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Work up imagination to the state of vision.
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I like endings that let your imagination do a lot of the work.
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On hearing about powerful love, respond, be moved like an aesthete. Only, fortunate as you've been, remember how much your imagination created for you.
