Quotes about imagination
imagination fleeting denial
What you accomplish in life is limited only by your imagination and the fear of reprisal. Life is too fleeting and unrewarding to have to live with the added anus of indignity. The denial of one's inevitable demise is what causes most of the astringent blandness in the world. When your existence ends most certainly in death, there is no such thing as 'going too far'. There are no 'lines' you should fear to cross except the finish line. Playing it safe is the most dangerous thing you could do. Jim Goad
imagination trouble knows
You know you're in trouble when your own imagination starts punishing you. Eoin Colfer
imagination emotion shows
I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination. Javier Bardem
imagination paper sound
Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them. Jasper Fforde
imagination most-amazing possibility
Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it. Jason Silva
imagination persons bounds
Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid. F. Scott Fitzgerald
imagination world slave
You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.
imagination common-sense common
Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense. Evan Esar
imagination looks constructs
Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture. Eugene Delacroix
imagination genius source
The source of genius is imagination alone.
imagination energy purpose
You can offer your vibration on purpose. That's what visualization is. That's what imagination is: projecting thought energy on purpose. Esther Hicks
imagination imagine creator
You are a creator. You create with your every thought...anything you can imagine is yours to be, do or have.
imagination coward
Imagination makes cowards of us all.
imagination rooms ordinary
Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination. Jhumpa Lahiri
imagination awakened ought
The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work Harriet Martineau
imagination judgment fanaticism
Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment. Harriet Beecher Stowe
imagination vision inspired
My imagination has always been inspired by nature’s vision Gregory Colbert
imagination special actors
[There's] nothing special about an actor's imagination, except that he uses it a lot. Ian Mckellen
imagination novel limitation
In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination. Howard Gordon
imagination weak proportion
Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak. Giambattista Vico
imagination may rays
A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries. George Berkeley
imagination poetry intelligence
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
imagination misfortunes
Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza. Franz Kafka
imagination humanity might
If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all. Geoffrey S. Fletcher
imagination people fancy
How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination. Geoffrey Chaucer
imagination people literature
People can die of mere imagination.
imagination trying i-can
I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can. Franz Schubert
imagination people magic
To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination. Frank Auerbach
imagination chess initiative
Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative. Christian Morgenstern
imagination wonder
Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead . . . for in imagination, we can create wonders. Chris Wooding
imagination house body
Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic. George Steiner
imagination narrative accepted
Merkel has realized that the euro is not working, but she cannot change the narrative she has created because that narrative has caught the imagination of the German public, and the German public has accepted it. George Soros
imagination hiding direct
Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination. Fernando Pessoa