Quotes about imagination
imagination betrayed want
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. Lord Chesterfield
imagination shortcuts imagine
There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine. Frank Leahy
imagination world anything-goes
In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens. Northrop Frye
imagination literature language
Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.
imagination situation rhetorical
We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them.
imagination pieces educated
My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .
imagination progress weapons
With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination. Oriana Fallaci
imagination perception brain
With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while theyre going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination. Oliver Sacks
imagination obstacles power-of-positive-thinking
Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Norman Vincent Peale
imagination novel
For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination ... Ellen Glasgow
imagination historical quality
The big question of our time is not Can it be built? but Should it be built? This places us in an unusual historical moment: our future prosperity depends on the quality of our collective imaginations. Eric Ries
imagination people curiosity
People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
imagination scratches film
I like to see films that come out with lower budgets because you're forced into using your imagination. You don't have everything at your fingertips. You have to create it from scratch. Heath Ledger
imagination world saws
I became an actress because I discovered the world of the imagination when I was about 14 or so and the concept that you could engage in this amazing world of storytelling. I saw a production of Hamlet, and I didn't know Hamlet died in the end. Helen Mirren
imagination age stories
From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way. Hayley Atwell
imagination people healthy
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people. Henry Williamson
imagination taste literature
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
imagination als taste
There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]
imagination simple-life imagine
Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
imagination surprise
Don't let your imagination take you by surprise. Jimi Hendrix
imagination trying acting
Acting is an imaginative leap, really. And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell you how one does, but one tries to read those circumstances correctly. John Hurt
imagination poverty logic
The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being. Bertrand Russell
imagination enthusiasm heat
That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life. Benjamin Disraeli
imagination politics opponents
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
imagination literature facts
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. Edgar Allan Poe
imagination terror
People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread. Matt Reeves
imagination science vastly
Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than are the classics.
imagination experience poor
Imagination is a poor substitute for experience. Havelock Ellis
imagination
Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be. Harry Emerson Fosdick
imagination historical fiction
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure. Geraldine Brooks
imagination wish looks
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth. Horace
imagination reform endeavor
We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects. Henry David Thoreau
imagination sublime mountain
The most stupendous scenery ceases to be sublime when it becomes distinct, or in other words limited, and the imagination is no longer encouraged to exaggerate it. The actual height and breadth of a mountain or a waterfall are always ridiculously small; they are the imagined only that content us.