Quotes about imagination
imagination towns visitors
The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination. Christopher Isherwood
imagination soul common
It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry. Gaston Bachelard
imagination world thanks
Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
imagination release my-own
History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination. Jennifer Gilmore
imagination existential realizing
Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom. Jean-Paul Sartre
imagination great-imagination
True invective requires great imagination. George William Curtis
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