Imagination Quotes
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I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it.
Nikola Tesla
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In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the perfect mind to me.
Hilary Mantel
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Using your imagination to create mental images stimulates your mind, helps organize your life and keeps your focus in a particular direction. It allows your unconscious mind to work toward the image you have created, the goal. It's about understand the life you want to live, and seeing it unfold before you.
Georges St-Pierre
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so.
Gertrude Atherton
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A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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The only limit to success is your own imagination.
Shonda Rhimes
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The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.
Karl Lagerfeld
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We are not to tell nature what she’s gotta be... She's always got better imagination than we have.
Richard Feynman
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An artist’s imagination is his greatest tool...
Michael Jackson
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It's our imagination that's responsible for love, not the other person.
Esther Perel
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The literary artist will ... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest upon his facts. He is worth to the world just about what he has learned from it, and no more.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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Use your imagination until your big dream feels so familiar that its manifestation is the next logical step.
Esther Hicks
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The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.
Stephen Covey
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To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories.
Stephen Covey
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The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.
John Ruskin
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Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination.
Stephen Covey
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When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius
William Crashaw
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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
Terence McKenna
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It's not the job of this town to make me feel happy. It's not this town´s fault that I don't feel I fit in. It doesn't matter where you are in the world, because it's about where you are in your head. It's about the other world I inhabit. The world of dreams, hope, imagination, and memories. I'm happy up here, and because of that I'm happy up there too
Cecelia Ahern
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The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.
Terence McKenna
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It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.
Terence McKenna
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Imagination is the only true thing in the world!
Sarah Orne Jewett
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Our imagination as a staff, and Chuck's imagination with the offensive staff is to move the football.
Bob Stoops