Quotes about imagination
imagination statistics fiction
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there. Richard P. Feynman
imagination
We are not to tell nature what she’s gotta be. She's always got better imagination than we have.
imagination worry waste
Worry is a waste of imagination. Walt Disney
imagination satisfied resent
I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.
imagination domain feels
Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe. William Irwin Thompson
imagination rhetoric
rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination. William Butler Yeats
imagination
The living can assist the imagination of the dead...
imagination logic reason
By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
imagination doe losing
Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?
imagination fancy youth
Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate. Walter Savage Landor
imagination common-sense enemy
There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten. Winston Churchill
imagination matter way
He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up he did in the same matter-of-fact sensible way; without a touch of imagination, without a sparkle of brilliancy, but with the inexplicable niceness of his type. Virginia Woolf
imagination life-is my-imagination
All i have in my life is my imagination Woody Allen
imagination levers world
The mightiest lever known to the world: imagination. William Wordsworth
imagination
Imagination comes in after we have experience. William Morris Hunt
imagination may
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours. William James
imagination three source
The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience William Faulkner
imagination temptation execution
Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution? Saint Francis de Sales
imagination mind enthusiasm
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment. William Warburton
imagination idolatry
To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God. William Tyndale
imagination liberty horizon
The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon. Will Self
imagination scary
Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is. Yvonne Craig
imagination taste receiving
Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination. William Hazlitt
imagination want ordinary
The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.
imagination texture delicate
The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.
imagination causes action
Action can only be understood in relation to place; only by staying in place can the imagination conceive or understand action in terms of consequence, of cause and effect. The meaning of action in time is inseparable from its meaning in place. Wendell Berry
imagination needs novel
If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?
imagination trying balance
These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same time, realistic enough to balance this kind of imagination and the process leading to it - not using violence, not trying to create chaos. Wadah Khanfar
imagination stories and-love
India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it. Yann Martel
imagination understanding my-imagination
What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out. Wynton Marsalis
imagination together my-imagination
I do not hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them gleich alles zusammen - at the same time all together. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
imagination lag ruthlessness
I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds. Zygmunt Bauman
imagination quality wonderful
I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination. Zelda Fitzgerald