Imagination Quotes
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Filmmaking is like playing in your imagination and getting paid to do it. I guess I'll ride this horse until it bucks me.
Nicholas Ozeki -
DAISY: I never knew you were such a realist-I thought you were more poetic. Where's your imagination? There are many sides to reality. Choose the one that's best for you. Escape into the world of imagination.
Eugene Ionesco
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We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.
William Hazlitt -
God is not an act of our imagination. We are an act of God's imagination.
Anthony Douglas Williams -
What is so intriguing about this interplay between technology and the human imagination is that here we are dealing with the equation. As I imagine, so I become - and this is the very essence of magic.
Nevill Drury -
Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save us from traveling the river changed; save us from hitchhiking the long road home. Imagine an escape. Imagine that your own shadow on the wall is a perfect door. Imagine a song stronger than penicillin. Imagine a spring with water that mends broken bones. Imagine a drum which wraps itself around your heart. Imagine a story that puts wood in the fireplace.
Sherman Alexie -
Formerly it was the fashion to preach the natural; now it is the ideal. People too often forget that these things are profoundly compatible; that in a beautiful work of imagination the natural should be ideal, and the ideal natural.
August Wilhelm von Schlegel -
A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.
Honore de Balzac
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Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey -
In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.
Stephen Lang -
The little ones still remember how to use the power of their imagination. They are still engaged in the utilization of their imagination, that is one of the reasons that keeps them so exhilarated.
Esther Hicks -
Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.
Thomas Kinkade -
Rigor is not a substitute for imagination.
Gary A. Klein -
There are a lot of good books around. People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?
Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
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Imagination might not be limitless. It's still tethered to the universe of what we know.
Chang-Rae Lee -
We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
Terry Brooks -
No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.
Karen Tei Yamashita -
War…next to love, has most captured the world’s imagination.
Eric Partridge -
Without imagination, nothing is dangerous.
Georgette Leblanc -
Don't let your imagination take you by surprise.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.
Blaise Pascal -
When you're quite young, your imagination's quite free.
Noel Fielding -
Hope your wildest hopes, dream your maddest dreams, imagine your most fantastic fantasies. Where your hopes and your dreams and your imagination leave off, the love of my Heavenly Father only begins.
Brennan Manning -
Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.
Vivienne Westwood