Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Hamel

For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.

Gary Hamel

The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.

Gary Hamel

Never before has the gap between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish been smaller.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.

Ian Mcewan

I've always thought cruelty is a failure of imagination.

Ian Mcewan

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Ian Mcewan

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

Hugh Howey

I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a handful of fans.

Homer

Without question it may be said of Vancouver that her position, geographically, is Imperial to a degree, that her possibilities are enormous, and that with but a feeble stretch of the imagination those possibilities might wisely be deemed certainties.

Annabeth Gish

I am pretty scare-able. I guess that is why I like doing horror because my imagination can take me places.

Slim Thug

I don't let my imagination run wild when I rap.

Henry David Thoreau

I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

Hugo Pratt

For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.

Howard Schultz

If it Captures Your Imagination, it will captivate others.

James Broughton

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

Jack Williamson

Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.

Immanuel Kant

Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

Elle Fanning

To be an actor or actress, you have to feel on a deep level and tap into emotions that you've never felt before. You're imagining how something would feel. You have to use your imagination so much.

By no measure of the imagination did we have joint defenses.

Leonardo da Vinci

The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.

Leonardo da Vinci

The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.

Paul Ricoeur

If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination.

Paloma Faith

Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

LeRoy Neiman

Imagination comes of not having things.

Mark Victor Hansen

One of the greatest assets you have is your imagination.

Maria Edgeworth

there is no reasoning with imagination.

Nelson Mandela

Those who can't imagine change reveal the deficits of their imaginations, not the difficulty of change.

Rachel Maddow

Clearly, there has been a lack of imagination about how much can go wrong.

Nhat Hanh

How do you want to create peace, if there is no peace inside yourselves?

Noam Chomsky

The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others to do so as well, seeking to free ourselves from constraints imposed by coercive institutions, dogma, irrationality, excessive conformity and lack of initiative and imagination, and numerous other obstacles.