Imagination Quotes
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Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.
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Acknowledging our love for the living world does something that a library full of papers on sustainable development and ecosystem services cannot: it engages the imagination as well as the intellect. It inspires belief; and this is essential to the lasting success of any movement.
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When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.
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The writer's goal is to try to make it frightening without describing it too much, and yet not making it so grey that you don't know what's going on... Your imagination can imagine all sorts of really horrible things, and if you're able to prolong that feeling, then you've succeeded.
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Dots ...: Small marks variously made to indicate infinity, hesitation, duplication, or lack of imagination.
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When a child's mind develops and is heading in a certain direction, we murder that mentality, we murder that imagination, by saying, 'Now, that is all well and good, but now sit down and start to study.'
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My parents created a world in which the only barrier to your success is your own imagination.
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But he was not kidnapped. ... It's in his imagination. He creates his own world and he believes it is reality.
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There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.
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Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form.
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As cities grow and technology takes over the world, belief and imagination fade away, and so do we.
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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.
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A Leader must possess credibility, imagination, enthusiasm, vision, foresight, a sense of timing, a passion for excellence and be willing to share.
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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.
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
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Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.
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Imagination decides everything.
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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.
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The power of imagination is incredible. Often we see athletes achieving unbelievable results and wonder how they did it. One of the tools they use is visualization or mental imagery… they made the choice to create their destinies and visualized their achievements before they ultimately succeeded.
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I think my imagination about jobs was pretty limited. There were so few jobs that I actually saw people who looked like me in, that I imagined myself in, that I think I just stopped imagining.
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No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.
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Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future.
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Few men have imagination enough for reality.
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To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.
