Quotes about imagination
imagination mind plight
When a poor disconsolated drooping creature is terrified from all enjoyment,--prays without ceasing 'till his imagination is heated,--fasts and mortifies and mopes, till his body is in as bad a plight as his mind; is it a wonder, that the mechanical disturbancesof an empty belly, interpreted by an empty head, should be mistook for [the] workings [of God]. Laurence Sterne
imagination levels use
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. Luigi Pirandello
imagination way fiction
Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride. Nicolas Cage
imagination magic trying
I want to try to apply my abilities sometimes to make families happy, so I have to make movies at a venue that are not gratuitously violent, that are not using bullets and bloodshed, but are using things like magic and fantasy and enchantment and the imagination. To me that's just all positive stuff. But I am eclectic and I still like to make movies for the midnight audience as well.
imagination cameras actors
I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same - although with videogames it requires a lot of imagination. Nolan North
imagination genius academic
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination Nassim Nicholas Taleb
imagination important
You imagination is more important than your knowledge. Mike Murdock
imagination noble suggestions
What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions. John Ruskin
imagination intuition essentials
The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.
imagination man untrained wings
The man of imagination who is untrained (unlearned, uneducated, undisciplined) has wings and no feet. Joseph Joubert
imagination age novelists
We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's newspaper. Philip Roth
imagination function wit
Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature. Peggy Noonan
imagination cinema world
Cinema is a world of imagination. Marjane Satrapi
imagination poetry proficiency
Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination. Marianne Moore
imagination towers evanescence
Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.
imagination healthy mind
Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect, and not overborne by an undue or hardened pre-eminence of the mere reasoning faculties, there the grotesque will exist in full energy.
imagination trying noble
In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet.
imagination waste rooms
I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination. Norman Douglas
imagination ardent
Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.
imagination excuse truth-is
The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination. Nolan Bushnell
imagination young clear
When you are young your imagination is so clear. Nina Blackwood
imagination maple-syrup limits
We are bound only by the limits of our imaginations. Misha Collins
imagination mind great-work
Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind. John Dos Passos
imagination soul desire
Everything in the world of soul has a deep desire and longing for visible form; this is exactly where the power of the imagination lives. John O'Donohue
imagination mind wish
When you begin to sense that your imagination is the place where you are most divine, you feel called to clean out of your mind all the worn and shabby furniture of thought. You wish to refurbish yourself with living thought so that you can begin to see.
imagination audacity tests
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter of course because they have withstood the tests of experiment and have emerged triumphant, were once speculative hypotheses. John Dewey
imagination observation sensible
Just as the senses require sensible objects to stimulate them, so our powers of observation, recollection, and imagination do not work spontaneously, but are set in motion by the demands set up by current social occupations.
imagination
Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics. John B. S. Haldane
imagination giving world
Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination. Joan Miro
imagination speak ifs
How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination? Joan of Arc
imagination
Life has more imagination than we do. Francois Truffaut
imagination people ballet
I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet. Joan Chen
imagination hem facts
It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth. Madeleine L'Engle