Imagination Quotations | Page 4

I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

I first came across the script for 'Macbeth' between the ages of 11 and 12; it was the first book that shook my life. Because I did not yet understand that I could simply purchase it in a bookstore, I copied much of it by hand and took it home. My childhood imagination pushed me to feel like a co-author of the play.

There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.

On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.

In Ronald Reagan's chaotic childhood, the imagination was armor. There is nothing unusual about that; transcending the doubts, hesitations, and fears swirling around you by casting yourself internally as the hero of your own adventure story is a characteristic psychic defense mechanism of the Boy Who Disappears.

You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies; we do.

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

Reducing and reusing take nothing more than a rethink on the way we shop, and using our imagination with the things that we might once have considered junk.

Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and there is already a narrative arc. What makes it harder is that you are not free to use your imagination and creativity to fill in any missing gaps within the story.

You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in some work next to nothing, you going to have a feature. But you can't get beyond how expensive marketing the movie is, it's so crushing.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.

What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

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.

People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward.

I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.

There's no reason for your imagination to be fettered by money.

As one of four daughters, I grew up with an imaginary brother - wondering what it would have been like if one of us had been a boy. There's no question that there was a phantom boy child in my imagination when I was young.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

When you're young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!

He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.

We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.

The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.

My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.

The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination - what do you dream of wanting to do?

To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else Ive ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

My life has been a gift up to this point, and I've been blessed beyond my wildest imagination. And wherever this ride takes me is where I'm going.

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.

President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.

I do think that there is a profound reservoir of creativity and imagination in everyone I've ever met, and sometimes if someone is persistent and perversely obstinate enough to persevere, then they want to be helped. There is a way to help them.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.

My hope is that this life is not all there is. This life is like preparation for what is coming next, and what is coming next is something so glorious that the Bible says minds can't conceive it, eye has never seen, your imagination could never even enter into all that God is preparing for those who love him.

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.

I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by.

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.

George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

That's why I love being a writer. My imagination can take me places I may never see except in my mind's eye.

There's something magical about a home run. It almost violates the space of the stadium. It's a game of the imagination in some ways. Baseball.

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it's science fiction, horror or really anything. I'm just drawn to quality. I don't think 'Darkness Falls' is horror; there isn't any gore by any stretch of the imagination.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and then you'd use your imagination.

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

I started track and field when I was 12 and didn't get to an Olympic Games until I was nearly 23. By any stretch of the imagination that's a very long apprenticeship.

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason, in a way that animals can’t do.

Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.