Quotes about imagination
imagination music-love competent
I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent. Vikram Seth
imagination ungrateful mind
The imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find fault with them, see them for what they are and then alter them. Rose Tremain
imagination expectations design
They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions fortuitous, destroy the value of their friendship, obstruct the efficacy of their virtues, and set them below the meanest of those who persist in their resolutions, execute what they design, and perform what they have promised. Samuel Johnson
imagination existence
Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.
imagination expectations arrogance
No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting with expectation, and hushed with attention, easily terrifies himself with the dread of disappointing them, and strains his imagination in pursuit of something that may vindicate the veracity of fame, and show that his reputation was not gained by chance.
imagination decision comedy
I do as much comedy as I possibly can but I’m basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions, Rufus Sewell
imagination protein modernism
Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination. Robert Hughes
imagination fancy judgment
It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.
imagination world true-things
Imagination is the only true thing in the world! Sarah Orne Jewett
imagination world vapid
Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail. Wallace Stevens
imagination candle-lights candle
God and the imagination are one.
imagination
Imagination is the will of things. . . .
imagination tragedy satan
The death of Satan was a tragedy For the imagination.
imagination irrepressible
Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist.
imagination mind possibility
Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.
imagination consciousness actuality
in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.
imagination force forces-of-nature
The imagination is one of the forces of nature.
imagination worry anxiety
Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination, a speech, travel-but rather by the symbolic and often unconscious representations. Willard Gaylin
imagination reason insight
Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason. Vivienne Westwood
imagination erotic zone
The most erotic zone is the imagination.
imagination creation
Your imagination creates the inner picture that allows you to participate in the act of creation. Wayne Dyer
imagination my-imagination
Women alone stir my imagination ... Virginia Woolf
imagination facts strange
There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.
imagination mind pageant
But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up in my mind and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness.
imagination affection strikes
There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property. William Blackstone
imagination vision states
Work up imagination to the state of vision. William Blake
imagination world eternity
The world of imagination is the world of eternity.
imagination world body
The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.
imagination outlines
Nature has no outline. Imagination has.
imagination heaven shadow
In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.
imagination vision poet
One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.
imagination states existence
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
imagination cinema mysterious
There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization. Werner Herzog