Imagination Quotes
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I don't know if it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm not going to be writing about Paris in the 1800s. I feel like it would come off as just ludicrously uninformed, even if I did a lot of research.
Maria Semple
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They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.
Margaret Mahy
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I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
Tahereh Mafi
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As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Without imagination of the one kind or of the other, mortal existence is indeed a dreary and prosaic business... Illumined by the imagination, our life, whatever its defeats - is a never-ending unforeseen strangeness and adventure and mystery.
Walter de La Mare
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But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.
Leslie Marmon Silko
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Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination.
William Arthur Ward
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I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.
Norman Douglas
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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.
Christian Bale
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Our # imagination is ten times more potent than our willpower .
Anthony Robbins
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The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.
Virginia Postrel
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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.
Alice Morse Earle
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The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's ordinary powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.
E. F. Schumacher
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The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.
James Weldon Johnson
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Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
Hilary Mantel
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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
William Blake
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Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.
Denise Levertov
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People said, ‘You must be mad, or on drugs,’ which I found a bit disappointing. What about imagination? It reflects our time that people sooner assume you’re on drugs or mad, rather than free.
Noel Fielding
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Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination.
Terence McKenna
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Imagination is the mightiest despot.
Berthold Auerbach
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Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.
Abraham Zaleznik
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Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.
Tim Robbins
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Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.
Guy Fieri
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
Alexandre Dumas