Imagination famous quotes
04-23-2025
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If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.
-- A. R. Rahman -
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
-- Abdul Kalam -
But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
-- Abel Ferrara -
Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
-- Abraham Verghese -
Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.
-- Abraham Zaleznik -
Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.
-- Abraham Zaleznik -
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not, which exists not for our senses... Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things... Imagination too shows what is ... Hence she is or should be especially cultivated by the truly Scientific, those who wish to enter into the worlds around us!
-- Ada Lovelace -
Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
-- Adam Johnson -
The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
-- Adam Smith -
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
-- Adam Smith -
All the manifested world of things and beings are projected by imagination upon the substratum which is the Eternal All pervading Vishnu , whose nature is Existence- Intelligence ; just as the different ornaments are all made out of the same gold.
-- Adi Shankara -
My favorite action movie growing up was 'Supergirl.' It wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination, but it was my favorite because I wanted to be her. I have a Supergirl tattoo.
-- Adrianne Palicki -
I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.
-- Adrien Brody -
You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
-- Agatha Christie -
Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
-- Agnes Smedley -
Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.
-- Aharon Appelfeld -
When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.
-- Ahmet Zappa -
Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.
-- Ai Weiwei -
Let her love God as He is in Himself, and not as her imagination says He is, and pictures Him.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
-- Akira Kurosawa -
I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.
-- Akshay Kumar -
Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.
-- Al Alvarez -
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.
-- Al Gore -
If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.
-- Alain de Botton -
Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.
-- Alain LeRoy Locke -
A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
-- Alan Bennett -
It's a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
-- Alan Greenspan -
Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
-- Alan Hirsch -
Brings [O'Brian's] achievement to a new height....Such is O'Brian's power to possess the imagination that I found I was living in his world as much as my own, wanting to know what happens next. That is the real test. Any contemporary novelist should recognize in Patrick O'Brian a Master of the Art.
-- Alan Judd -
No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.
-- Alan Lightman -
One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
-- Alan Rickman -
The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.
-- Alan Watts -
I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.
-- Albert Camus -
When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. ... there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.
-- Albert Camus -
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein -
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
-- Albert Einstein -
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid: humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.
-- Albert Einstein -
All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein -
The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.
-- Albert Einstein -
Imagination is more powerful than knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein -
Imagination Is More Powerful Than Knowledge Because Knowledhe Is Limited But Imagination Is Without Boundaries
-- Albert Einstein -
The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations.
-- Albert Ellis -
Science has helped us to understand and master ourselves, creating an elevated new form of human life, the wealth and beauty of which cannot be pictured today by the keenest imagination.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
With imagination, we can hold a universe inside our minds.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.
-- Aldo Leopold -
It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.
-- Alec Soth -
I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.
-- Alessandro Nivola -
The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.
-- Alex Cox -
Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn -
Worry is essentially a misuse of imagination.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn -
Imagination is vital to precautionary judgement.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn -
Imagination is the cornerstone of human endeavor.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn -
Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn -
Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn -
Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against his will, whose notion of Beauty always differs from yours and whose means (strength, imagination, technique) are often too limited to help you effectively! What torment, to have your thinking and your phantasy tied down by another person!
-- Alexander Alekhine -
The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
-- Alexander Cockburn -
It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith -
It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination
-- Alexander McQueen -
Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.
-- Alexander von Humboldt -
Cherie, did the table do something I did not see or were you just attempting to teach it a lesson?" "I was imagining it was Evor." "Strange that they do not resemble each other." "I have a good imagination." "Ah, in that case, I do not suppose you are imagining I'm Brad Pitt?
-- Alexandra Ivy -
So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.
-- Alfred Austin -
What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his principle of existence had become the haunting central figure in contemporary life?
-- Alfred Kazin -
I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have mastered difficult economics problems, when really they have done little more than learn the language in which parts of those problems can be expressed, and the machinery by which they can be handled. When the actual conditions of particular problems have not been studied, such knowledge is little better than a derrick for sinking oil-wells erected where there are no oil-bearing strata.
-- Alfred Marshall -
Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
-- Alfred Nobel -
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and beneath the world.
-- Algernon Blackwood -
When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us.
-- Algernon Blackwood -
Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.
-- Alice Morse Earle -
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.
-- Alice Walker -
I do find life difficult at times … and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy … I don't think one can have great imagination and great wisdom. Can one?
-- Alison Uttley -
Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul.
-- Alister E. McGrath -
Think the unthinkable, Imagine the impossible Pursue the imaginations limits.
-- Allan Weisbecker -
My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.
-- Alphonse Daudet -
Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Those who are seeking the true religion will never find it outside the Catholic Church alone, because, in every other religion, if they trace it up to the author, they will find some impostor whose imagination furnished a mass of sophisms and errors
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile.
-- Alvin Toffler -
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.
-- Amos Oz -
Go to where the silence is and say something.
-- Amy Goodman -
Instead of looking at our challenges and limitations as something negative or bad, we can begin to look at them as blessings, magnificent gifts that can be used to ignite our imaginations and help us go further than we ever knew we could go.
-- Amy Purdy -
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.
-- Amy Sedaris -
Imagination! My problem is that I have so many ideas, I never have enough time to use them all. Just the other day I thought up eleven things I could do with a flowerpot. Eleven! Three of those things didn't even involve plants.
-- Amy Sedaris -
That is the saddest part when you lose someone you love - that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost? Maybe you lost more maybe less, then thousand different things that come from your memory or imagination - and you do not know which is which, which was true, which is false.
-- Amy Tan -
I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.
-- Amy Tan -
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
-- Anais Nin
