Imagination Quotes
-
Imagination allows you to bend the rules of the temporal world.
-
Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.
-
We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.
-
I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.
-
Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.
-
I'm essentially the result of other people's imagination. And that's fine. Because of other people's imagination, I've played parts I would never have thought I could do. Still, I've never had a hankering or an ambition for any particular role.
-
It becomes an extension of your imagination to make something tangible and concrete.
-
What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings, which has always been a great puzzle to evolutionary theory, I believe, occurred in the presence of a kind of catalyst for the human imagination.
-
There's no reason for your imagination to be fettered by money.
-
In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.
-
One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?
-
It is so rare...to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent and restless as ours to meet and to be matched together, that I hardly know how to tell you what happiness it gives me to know you.
-
No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.
-
It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism; for certainly, no one can deny the existence of a profoundly morbid streak in the Puritan imagination.
-
I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.
-
I think the two main tools actors have are the imagination of what other people have gone through, to connect with and through research, and there's one's own experience.
-
Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing.
-
It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
-
Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
-
Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.
-
Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form.
-
Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let’s use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy and remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together.
-
Imagination decides everything.
-
Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe that people entirely devoid of imagination never can be really good gardeners. To be content with the present, and not striving about the future, is fatal.
