Imagination Quotes
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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.
George Bernard Shaw -
Embrace reality by imagination.
Austin Osman Spare
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Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.
Joel Kinnaman -
I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.
Steven Spielberg -
When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagination.
Elsie de Wolfe -
Imagination is the light by which we can penetrate new worlds of thought and experience.
Charles F. Haanel -
The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched material with suggestion and never guess that he is himself chiefly making what he enjoys.
C. S. Lewis -
Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.
Abraham Zaleznik
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
George Eliot -
Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.
Eloisa James -
I worry that free imagination is overvalued, and I think this carries risks.
Carlo Rovelli -
When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which feeds the analytic faculty with boundless alternatives and which causes each visualized route to fork and re-fork without end in the maddeningly complex prospect of my past.
Vladimir Nabokov -
It isn’t a big jump in the imagination to see yourself living alone like Mr Hoppy.
Dustin Hoffman -
Imagination is the mightiest despot.
Berthold Auerbach
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a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the true pleasure of life may be tasted, the region of imagination, creative and protean, the clouds and beautiful shapes of whose heaven are destroyed by the wind of reality.
Vita Sackville-West -
I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.
Michael D. Higgins -
Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.
William Butler Yeats -
Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
Norman Vincent Peale -
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
John Keats
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The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.
Blaise Pascal -
A Leader must possess credibility, imagination, enthusiasm, vision, foresight, a sense of timing, a passion for excellence and be willing to share.
William Rosenberg -
This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life, it smiles in sunlight and sleeps in green, known of the world not by communion of knowledge, but by personal, secret discovery!
J. G. Holland -
Poetry = Anger x Imagination
Sherman Alexie