Imagination Quotes
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There are two - parallel - universes of science. One is the actual day-to-day work of scientists, patiently researching into all parts of the world and sometimes making amazing discoveries. The other is the role science plays in the public imagination - the powerful effect it has in shaping how millions of ordinary people see the world.
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Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense, imagination is a response to what is going on — a sensitiveness to which outside things appeal. It is a composition of sympathy and observation.
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I think courage is commensurate with your fear - if you lack imagination and you're fearless, that's not courage to me.
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There's something really special about childhood. When you're a kid, you're at your most creative, and you're very plugged into your imagination and emotions. But when you get older, you're encouraged to dance around your feelings and disengage, and I think it's crucial to fight that.
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The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.
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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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'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.'
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For her whole life she would sacrifice to him every quality of her own, and he wouldn't even be aware of the sacrifice, he would be surrounded by the wealth of feeling, intelligence, imagination that were hers, without knowing what to do with them, he would ruin them.
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Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.
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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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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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Imagination is really dependent on memory and observation, these things that we think of as part of nonfiction writing, actually.
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Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st. Suppose the singing birds musicians, The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strewed, The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more Than a delight measure or a dance; For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.
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Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary.
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I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of reality, I almost don't have the imagination to write a book that's not set where I am.
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I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.
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I think cinema is the memory and the imagination of the country. Take the memory and imagination out of an individual, and he stops being an individual. I think it's the same thing for a country.
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There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in the boots of the soldier.
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I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.
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It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything.
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I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact that we are the superior species. We are the species uniquely capable of imagination, rationality and moral choice-and that is precisely why we are under the obligation to recognise and respect the rights of animals.
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A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
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What I find difficult about Buddhism, though it is also one of its significant fascinations, is the focus on what is immediately and physically present. To me, this seems a denial of the imagination, and the imagination is very important to me.
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Are there any mythical beasts which aren't simple pastiches of nature? Centaurs, minotaurs, unicorns, griffons, chimeras, sphinxes, manticores, and the like don't speak well for the human imagination. None is as novel as a kangaroo or starfish.
