Imagination Quotes

Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to her sorrow, possessed it. Had both been blessed - or cursed - with it, there would have been much keener competition for the apple.

Stella Benson
At this very early stage in my career, I want people to experience the music first and let it drive their imagination and their experiences.

Aubrie Sellers
- People
- Music
- Experience

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.

Willard Gaylin
- Worry
- Feelings
- Anxiety
Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Men
- Women
- Knowledge
When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.

William Hazlitt
- People
- Fall
- Terror
And then there are those ninth grade followers of European methods, who are as puerile in technique as they are void in imagination.

Xu Zhimo
To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path

Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
- Imagination
- Path
It was not the purpose of poetry to record anything and everything, to merely describe either the outer world or some subjective mood, but to speak from the imagination of the poet to the imagination of the reader.

Kathleen Raine
- World
- Purpose
- Speak