Imagination Quotes
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If you take your inspiration from nature, you don't invent anything, because what you want to do is to interpret something. But still, everything passes throught your imagination. What you produce at the end is very different from the reality you started with.
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When my youngest daughter got married, I designed her wedding dress and I really let my imagination and energy go crazy! All the journalists seemed to love that dress.
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I don't agree with the sentiment 'write what you know.'... I think one should write what one doesn't know. The world is bigger and wider and more complex than our small subjective selves. One should prod, goad the imagination.
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Whenever you permit yourself to think what persons, things, conditions, or circumstances may suggest, you are not following what you want to think. You are not following your own desires but borrowed desires. Use your imagination in determining what you want to think or do.
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If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.
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The important outcomes of schooling include not only the acquisition of new conceptual tools, refined sensibilities, a developed imagination, and new routines and techniques, but also new attitudes and dispositions. The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.
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I believe that fantasy in the meaning of imagination is very important. We shouldn't stick too close to everyday reality but give room to the reality of the heart, of the mind, and of the imagination.
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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 improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partner’s imagination.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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The unfortunate reality is the alt-right has captured white people's imagination.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain.
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There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction writer envisions another world, and then some space probe finds it. If you believe in something strongly enough, I think you can make it happen.
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Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
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The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
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When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.
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Now the power of the imagination is a unifying power, hence the force of metaphor; and the poet is the supreme manipulator of metaphor... the world needs the unifying power of the imagination. The two things that give it best are poetry and religion.
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Imagination is the light by which we can penetrate new worlds of thought and experience.
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Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.
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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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I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.
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Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
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I tried the second season of 'American Horror Story,' and it scared me horribly. I guess I prefer my own imagination to a realized visual.
