Imagination Quotes
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Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination.
Vinod Khosla -
A good many of my poems over the years have alluded to or taken on the political. Stevens has a line in one of his essays: "Reality exerts pressure on the imagination." Inevitably what is omnipresent in the culture exerts its pressure on our imaginations to respond to it, even if indirectly. But in this case the backdrop of 9/11, coincident with the breakup of a marriage, the finding of new love, some kind of personal cataclysm... all of those were forces informing the poems in some way.
Stephen Dunn
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Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat.
Carol J. Adams -
The Constitution did not even go into effect when Washington was inaugurated first President. The wisest men knew that it was only a figment of the imagination then.
Charles A. Beard -
To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi -
A true picture has the power to set the imagination to work.
Wifredo Lam -
Certain moments remain in the mind with such force and clearness that one suspects they must be invented; that they are not held in the memory but generated out of the imagination.
John Banville -
My mother's people, the people who captured my imagination when I was growing up, were of the Deep South - emotional, changeable, touched with charisma and given to histrionic flourishes. They were courageous under tension and unexpectedly tough beneath their wild eccentricities, for they had and unusually close working agreement with God. They also had an unusually high quota of bullshit.
Willie Morris
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The improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partner’s imagination.
Keith Johnstone -
There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.
William Blackstone -
Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.
Guy Fieri -
People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.
Ann Wilson Heart -
My husband says I have too much imagination, but I don't think a writer can have too much imagination!
Judy Blume -
New York, for decades, offered a perpetual series of 'golden ages' to artists. You constantly had to measure yourself against the best, and you had to watch them, which meant that your imagination and also your sense of what the market could stand got very, very sharp.
Margo Jefferson
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It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.
Arthur Dove -
Trauma has shut down their inner compass and robbed them of the imagination they need to create something better. The neuroscience of selfhood and agency validates the kinds of somatic therapies that my friends Peter Levine13 and Pat Ogden14 have developed. I’ll discuss these and other sensorimotor approaches in more detail in part V, but in essence their aim is threefold.
Bessel van der Kolk -
Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in her diary about the sticky issue: "I've shirked two parties, and another Frenchman, and buying a hat, and tea with Hilda Trevelyan, for I really can't combine all this with keeping all my imaginary people going.
Virginia Woolf -
I understood that life is lived most fully in the imagination - that, ironically, imagination is the key to reality.
Betty Eadie -
The works of a person that begin immediately to decay, while those of him who plants begin directly to improve. In this, planting promises a more lasting pleasure than building; which, were it to remain in equal perfection, would at best begin to moulder and want repairs in imagination. Now trees have a circumstance that suits our taste, and that is annual variety.
William Shenstone -
Only World War II, which mobilized 10 million draftees, could by any stretch of the imagination be called a people's war.
John Gregory Dunne
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There is almost no limit to the possibilities of the imagination, but to get the full power of it, one must trust one's imagination. If you say to yourself constantly, as the mother says to the child, 'But this is only play; this is not real,' you never can make real the things you have created in thought.
Elsa Barker -
I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad.
Esme Raji Codell -
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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.
William Gibson