Imagination Quotes
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I have an active imagination, and music opens the floodgates of that area of my brain.
Josh McDermitt -
The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation.
Wendy Beckett
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Without imagination, nothing is dangerous.
Georgette Leblanc -
When you're quite young, your imagination's quite free.
Noel Fielding -
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Joseph Joubert -
Imagination can help you reach into the heavens to grasp an idea, bring it down to earth, and make it work.
Walter Farley -
Imagination might not be limitless. It's still tethered to the universe of what we know.
Chang-Rae Lee -
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
William Cullen Bryant
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Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
Terry Wogan -
As an actor you use your imagination to put yourself in the shoes of bad guy characters. You create a story as to why you are doing it. You are finding what drives people to do this.
David Dayan Fisher -
Henry Corbin creates the world - most of all his examination of the imagination and what the imagination was for him. Some philosophers would think of the imagination as a synthetic ability, how you put different things together. Artists more think of the imagination as creativity. So I really like the way that he presents the imagination as a faculty that allows one to experience worlds that are not exactly physical but are real nonetheless.
Ben Chasny -
The great secret is a controlled imagination and a well-sustained attention, firmly and repeatedly focused on the object to be accomplished.
Neville Goddard -
Independent of biological need fulfillment and the reproductive needs of the species, cultures satisfy not bodily needs, but values. Values define cultural man's need for rationality, meaningfulness in emotional experience, richness of imagination, and depth of faith. All cultures respond to such supra-biological values. But in what form they do so depends on the specific kind of values people happen to have.
Ervin Laszlo -
There is nothing worse than an enemy with imagination.
Sharon Kay Penman
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If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.
Miranda Otto -
Everyone has his own imagination of God. It is best if everyone is left to his own imagination.
Hazrat Inayat Khan -
This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen, hiding themselves under the shadow of natural objects, and to fix them with the hand, presenting to plain sight what does not actually exist.
Cennino Cennini -
Why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a form of mental cowardice, and I long to break free, to let my imagination take wings. It doesn't - yet.
Winifred Holtby -
Science has helped us to understand and master ourselves, creating an elevated new form of human life, the wealth and beauty of which cannot be pictured today by the keenest imagination.
Albert Szent-Györgyi -
I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books.
Thomas Kinkade
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I prefer shooting on location, just because it always helps you. You go some place, you put your life on hold even more than when you've settled in some place. You can make a new life so it opens yourself up to the make-believe and the imagination in a way when you aren't burdened by things that remind you of your life all the time.
Willem Dafoe -
Authors do not supply imaginations.
Nella Larsen -
Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.
Thomas Kinkade -
I am guided by the same intelligence and inspired by the same imagination which scatters the moon beams across the waves and holds the forces of nature in it's grasp.
Ernest Holmes